For decades scientists assumed that genes are continuous segments within deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the chemical template of heredity. In 1977, however, Richard J. Roberts, a thirty-four year old British scientist working with adenovirus, the same...

For decades scientists assumed that genes are continuous segments within deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) , the chemical template of heredity. In 1977, however, Richard. J. Roberts, a thirty-four year old British scientist working with adenovirus, the same...

Richard John Roberts was born in 1943, in Derby, England. His father, John Roberts, was a motor mechanic, while his mother, Edna (Allsop) Roberts, took care of the family and served as Richard's first tutor. After graduating with honors in 1965,...

1943 British molecular biologist who received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp for the discovery of "split genes." In 1977 Roberts and a team of researchers discovered that the genes of the adenovirus...

Richard John Roberts (born September 6, 1943, in Derby, England) is a British 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...