Thomas A. Steitz

Awards

1. 2007

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics.

2. 2009

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome