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Alexander Rich
Born(1924-11-15)15 November 1924
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died27 April 2015(2015-04-27) (aged 90)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University
Known fordiscovery of polysomes and Z-DNA
Awards
  • National Medal of Science
  • William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
  • Welch Award in Chemistry
  • Lomonosov Gold Medal
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. (magna cum laude) and an M.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling. During this time he was a member of the RNA Tie Club, a social and discussion group which attacked the question of how DNA encodes proteins. He has over 600 publications to his name.[1]

Born in Hartford, Connecticut,[2] Rich was the founder of Alkermes and was a director beginning in 1987. Rich was co-chairman of the board of directors of Repligen, a biopharmaceutical company. He also served on the editorial board of Genomics and the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.

  1. ^ Schimmel, Paul (2015). "Alexander Rich (1924–2015) Biologist who discovered ribosome clusters and 'left-handed' DNA". Nature. 521 (7552): 291. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..291S. doi:10.1038/521291a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25993953. S2CID 205085052.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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