Richard J. Roberts Summary

Richard John Roberts 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 Rober... Read more

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... Read more

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 Br... Read more

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... Read more