Richard J. Roberts
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| Born | Richard John Roberts 6 September 1943 Derby, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | molecular biologist |
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| Alma mater | University of Sheffield (BSc, PhD) |
| Thesis | Phytochemical studies involving neoflavanoids and isoflavanoids (1969) |
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| Influences | David Ollis John Kendrew Jack Strominger Daniel Nathans James Watson |
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Sir Richard John Roberts (born 6 September 1943) FRS is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.
Roberts was born in Derby, the son of Edna (Allsop) and John Roberts, an auto mechanic. When he was four, Roberts' family moved to Bath. In Bath, he attended City of Bath Boys' School. As a child he at first wanted to be a detective and then, when given a chemistry set, a chemist. In 1965 he graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry followed by a PhD in 1969. His thesis involved studies of neoflavonoids and isoflavonoids.
During 1969–1972, he did postdoctoral research at Harvard University. before moving to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he was hired by James Dewey Watson, a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a fellow Nobel laureate. In 1992, he moved to New England Biolabs. The following year, he shared a Nobel Prize with his former colleague at Cold Spring Harbor Phillip Sharp.
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