A Canadian American molecular Biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
He was a member of the school's ice hockey team while studying physics at MIT.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988.
He has two children with his wife Ann Korner, who he married in 1972.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Cech in 1989 for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
