Thomas Cech
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1989for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNATogether with: Sidney Altman
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 12/8/1947
- place of birth
- Chicago
- Age
- 78 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- biochemist
- chemist
- field of work
- molecular biology, genetics, and bioengineering
- biochemistry
- cancer biology
- educated at
- Iowa City High School
- University of California, Berkeley
- Grinnell College
- employer
- University of Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder
- member of
- European Molecular Biology Organization
- National Academy of Sciences
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1999
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences