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Thomas Cech

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Thomas Robert Cech (born 8 December 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.” Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA.

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