Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. He found that RNA can not only transmit instructions, but that it can act as a speed up the necessary reactions. He also studied telomeres, and his lab discovered an enzyme, TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase), which is part of the process of restoring telomeres after they are shortened during cell division.
As president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he promoted science education, and he teaches an undergraduate chemistry course at the University of Colorado. Provided by Wikipedia
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2Comparing environmental impacts of alien plants, insects and pathogens in protected riparian forestsby Katharina Lapin, Sven Bacher, Thomas Cech, Rok Damjanić, Franz Essl, Freya-Isabel Georges, Gernot Hoch, Andreja Kavčič, András Koltay, Saša Kostić, Ivan Lukić, Aleksander Marinšek, László Nagy, Sanja Novak Agbaba, Janine Oettel, Saša Orlović, Leopold Poljaković-Pajnik, Markus Sallmannshofer, Martin Steinkellner, Srdjan Stojnic, Marjana Westergren, Milica Zlatkovic, Anita Zolles, Maarten de GrootGet full text
Published 2021-10-01
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