Thomas A. Steitz

Thomas Steitz
Steitz in 2009
Born	Thomas Arthur Steitz (1940-08-23)August 23, 1940 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	October 9, 2018(2018-10-09) (aged 78) Branford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Wauwatosa High School, Lawrence University, Harvard University
Known for	Bio-crystallography
Spouse	Joan A. Steitz
Children	1
Awards	Sir Hans Krebs Medal (2000) Keio Medical Science Prize (2006) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2007) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009) ForMemRS (2011)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Crystallography Structural biology
Institutions	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	The 6⁰A crystal structure of carboxypeptidase A (1967)
Doctoral advisor	William N. Lipscomb, Jr.
Other academic advisors	David M. Blow
Notable students	Nenad Ban
Website	steitzlab.yale.edu

Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018^[2]) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome.

Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".^[3] Steitz also won the Gairdner International Award in 2007^[4] "for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase (EC 2.3.2.12) was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".^[5]