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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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    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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    Connecticut's 3rd congressional district, having served since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Hall, Thomas D. Pollard, Joan A. Steitz 2007 C. David Allis, Kim A. Nasmyth, Dennis J. Slamon, Harry F. Noller, Thomas A. Steitz 2008 Victor Ambros, Gary...
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  • Mark Ptashne 1976 – Joan A. Steitz 1977 – Robert G. Roeder 1978 – Charles R. Cantor 1979 – Christopher T. Walsh 1980 – Phillip A. Sharp 1981 – Roger D...
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    Susan Saint James (category Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    Allie (1984–1989). Saint James was born to a Connecticut family, the daughter of Constance (Geiger) Miller, a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, who worked...
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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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    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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    start translating the RNA into a protein sequence, and where to stop — were discovered by postdoctoral fellow Joan A. Steitz. Crick suggested how the tRNA...
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    translations. Gault's translation of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek as Pélerinage à Tinker Creek won in 1999 and Porte's translation of For the Time Being as...
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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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Helen Keller (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Cyclopaedia of American Biography)
    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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    Instead, her early prowess as a piano student (which was cultivated by a local music teacher, Anna Ryan, the organist of a nearby Catholic church), seemed...
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  • Florence Ann Griswold (December 25, 1850 – December 6, 1937) was a resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, United States who became the nucleus of the "Old...
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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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    public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Abby...
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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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    February 18, 1900) was the American educator who founded Miss Porter's School, a private college preparatory school for girls. She was born in Farmington,...
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    entertainers, including Mae West, Rusty Warren, Carol Channing, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, Ethel Merman, "Mama" Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the...
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