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Sidney Altman's Profile

Brief about Sidney Altman: By info that we know Sidney Altman was born at 1939-05-07. And also Sidney Altman is Canadian Scientist.

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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

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Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

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I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

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We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

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A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

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Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

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I always listen to music while I draw.

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I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.

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If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

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