Richard J. Roberts

Sir Richard J. Roberts FRS
Roberts in 2007
Born	Richard John Roberts (1943-09-06) 6 September 1943 Derby, England
Alma mater	University of Sheffield (BSc, PhD)
Known for	Alternative splicing Work on introns Restriction endonucleases DNA methylation Computational molecular biology
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) Knight Bachelor (2008) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology
Institutions	University of Sheffield New England Biolabs Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Harvard University
Thesis	Phytochemical studies involving neoflavanoids and isoflavanoids (1969)

Website	nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1993/roberts-bio.html

Sir Richard John Roberts (born 6 September 1943) 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 the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.