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    Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator...
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    Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale...
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  • basketball coach Joan A. Steitz (born 1941), American biologist Nick Steitz (born 1982), American football player Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018), American...
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  • enzymatic and a structural role. SnRNPs were discovered by Michael R. Lerner and Joan A. Steitz.Thomas R. Cech and Sidney Altman also played a role in the...
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    under the name of Nell Potts. She is an environmentalist, biologist, and a prominent supporter of sustainable agriculture, who became an entrepreneur...
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    Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles...
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  • Rehabilitation and became a community organizer. In 1962, she led a group that organized a community fundraising drive that raised $90,000 to launch a National Urban...
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    Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily...
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    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in the lab of Joan A. Steitz, a leading figure in RNA biology. Her PhD research investigated how mRNA...
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    Susan Saint James (category Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    Jane Miller in Los Angeles, California, to a Connecticut family, the daughter of Constance (Geiger) Miller, a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, who worked...
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    and in 2016 at Windsor Castle to mark her 90th birthday. Jackie and Joan Collins in a limo, Los Angeles 1987. Sting, naked in the desert, covered in mud...
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    born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side...
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    the age of 25, where she was a co-anchor from 1976 to 1989, at first with Tom Brokaw, and later with Bryant Gumbel; for a short while in the late 1980s...
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  • 2015 - no award 2014 - Joel Lebowitz, physics and mathematics 2013 - Joan A. Steitz, biochemistry 2012 - Adi Shamir, cryptography 2011 - Avelino Corma Canos...
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    Katharine Hepburn (category Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen...
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    (February 2, 1878 – March 17, 1951) was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president...
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    played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national championship, going 35–0 on...
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    (PhD thesis). Harvard University. ProQuest 302261581. Steitz, J (2011). "Joan Steitz: RNA is a many-splendored thing. Interview by Caitlin Sedwick". The...
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    Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh in "a house full of comedians." The book focuses on "waking up": 195  from a self-absorbed childhood and becoming immersed...
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    Anika Noni Rose (category Florida A&M University alumni)
    a Play. Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, to Claudia and John Rose, a corporate counsel. She attended Bloomfield High School, appearing in a school...
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    Four's a Crowd (1938), as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife (1936) (the second of three film adaptations of the play of the same name; Joan Crawford...
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  • Rush Lerner is a dermatologist in San Diego, California. Lerner was born in Portland, Oregon. He discovered snRNPs with Joan A. Steitz, STEP (with Paul...
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    representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes...
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  • Joan Joyce (August 18, 1940 – March 26, 2022) was the softball coach at Florida Atlantic, for 28 years until her death in 2022. She previously was a softball...
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    Haven, Connecticut. She is a granddaughter of Arthur W. Coolidge, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, who was a fourth cousin of President Calvin...
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    Indra Nooyi (category Articles with a promotional tone from December 2023)
    Indian Higher Secondary School in T. Nagar. Nooyi's mother was a home maker. While not having a formal education herself, her mother devised novel strategic...
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  • fundamental contributions to bacterial virus genetics and antibody diversity Joan A. Steitz (born 1941), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of snRNAs and...
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    Donald Henderson, Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, George Emil Palade, Joan A. Steitz 1987—Michael DeBakey, Theodor Otto Diener, Harry Eagle, Har Gobind Khorana...
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    jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of the civil rights...
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    Hedrick, Joan D. (August 1997). "Harriet Beecher Stowe". In Richard Kopley (ed.). Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars...
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