Jon Steitz's dad wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry

[battlekow]

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 57, who heads the Structural Studies Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England; Thomas A. Steitz , 69, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in Connecticut, and Ada E. Yonath, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, will share the 10 million-krona ($1.4 million) award, the Nobel Assembly said at a press conference in Stockholm today.

Their work revealed what ribosomes, which produce proteins that control the chemistry in all living organisms, look like and how they function at the atomic level.

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Steitz, also an American, was born in 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has a doctorate in molecular biology and biochemistry from Harvard University and teaches molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale. His son Jon Steitz is a former pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team.

link (hat tip Baseball Think Factory). Steitz was the Brewers' third-round pick in 2001 (career stats).

[southpaw121505]

I saw this on facebook the other day, my friend's wife is related to him.

[TooLiveBrew]

That's just incredible. Congrats to Thomas.

 

 

So, John... what does your dad do?