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JoAnne Stubbe

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JoAnne Stubbe, born June 11, 1946, in Champaign, Illinois, is an American chemist who taught chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until her retirement in 2017. Trained under George Kenyon, she is best known for her work on ribonucleotide reductases, the enzymes that convert the building blocks of RNA into those of DNA, research that clarified a step essential to how cells replicate their genetic material. She received the National Medal of Science in 2009 for this work.

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1946 1
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Champaign, United States 1
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
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  • P19 (place of birth): Champaign, United States
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  • Works In: Biochemistry, Infobox, fields
    Infobox fields: Biochemistry
  • Member Of: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead sentence
    JoAnne Stubbe (born June 11, 1946) is an American chemist best known for her work on ribonucleotide reductases, for which she was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2009. In 2017, she retired as a professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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