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Sir Richard John Roberts (born September 6, 1943 in Derby) is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. Roberts is the son of a motor mechanic and housewife. When he was 4, the family moved to Bath. In Bath, he attended Beechen Cliff School. As a child he at first wanted to be a detective and then, when given a chemistry... full article at wikipedia
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  • "for their discoveries of split genes"
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