| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Harvard_University gptkb:Lawrence_University
 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Gairdner_Foundation_International_Award gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
 gptkb:Louisa_Gross_Horwitz_Prize
 gptkb:Massry_Prize
 gptkb:Keio_Medical_Science_Prize
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1940-08-23 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Milwaukee,_Wisconsin,_USA 
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                                | gptkbp:category | Nobel laureates in Chemistry Yale University faculty
 American biochemists
 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2018-10-09 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Branford,_Connecticut,_USA 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:William_N._Lipscomb,_Jr. 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralStudent | gptkb:Jinwei_Zhang gptkb:Nenad_Ban
 gptkb:Yifan_Cheng
 
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                                | gptkbp:editor | gptkb:Annual_Review_of_Biophysics_and_Biomolecular_Structure 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:Yale_University 
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                                | gptkbp:field | biochemistry structural biology
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | ribosome structure 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
 gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith | gptkb:Ada_Yonath gptkb:Venkatraman_Ramakrishnan
 
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                                | gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear | 2009 studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Jinwei_Zhang gptkb:Nenad_Ban
 gptkb:Yifan_Cheng
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:chemist gptkb:professor
 
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                                | gptkbp:publishedIn | gptkb:Crystal_structure_of_the_large_ribosomal_subunit_from_Deinococcus_radiodurans Structural basis for the function of the ribosome
 X-ray crystallographic studies of ribosomal subunits
 A structural understanding of the dynamic ribosome machine
 
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                                | gptkbp:residence | gptkb:New_Haven,_Connecticut,_USA 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Joan_A._Steitz 
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                                | gptkbp:studiedBy | gptkb:gene X-ray crystallography
 protein synthesis
 ribosome
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Ada_Yonath gptkb:Jamie_Cate
 gptkb:Sir_Venki_Ramakrishnan
 gptkb:William_Nunn_Lipscomb_Jr.
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Thomas A. Steitz 
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