Sharp  (shärp)  American biochemist who shared a 1993 Nobel prize for discovering that some genes contain sequences, known as introns, that do not function as codes for the formation of a protein. |
Phillip Allen Sharp
American molecular biologist, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard J. Roberts, for his independent discovery that individual genes are often interrupted by long sections of DNA that do not encode protein structure
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