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Did Sidney Altman win the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA?

  • No, that was Watson and Crick

  • Yes

  • No, but he contributed to the discovery

  • Yes, but it was a joint discovery

Answer

The answer is no; Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. Sidney Altman, a Canadian-American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 with Thomas R. Cech for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.
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