Alexander Rich
American biologist (1924ā2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 ā 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. (magna cum laude) and an M.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling. During this time he was a member of the RNA Tie Club, a social and discussion group which attacked the question of how DNA encodes proteins. He has over 600 publications to his name.[1]
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Born | (1924-11-15)15 November 1924 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | 27 April 2015(2015-04-27) (aged 90) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Known for | discovery of polysomes and Z-DNA |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Biophysics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Born in Hartford, Connecticut,[2] Rich was the founder of Alkermes and was a director beginning in 1987. Rich was co-chairman of the board of directors of Repligen, a biopharmaceutical company. He also served on the editorial board of Genomics and the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.