Richard Roberts

In 1993, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine was the Director of Research and Development at the New England Biology Laboratory, a member of the Royal Society. Richard Roberts is a biochemist and molecular biologist, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Humanities and Sciences. He focused on the bioinformatics analysis of genomic sequences and the study of bacterial DNA methylation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his discovery of broken genes and mRNA splicing. This discovery has changed scientists' previous understanding of evolution and played an important foundational role in the basic research of modern biology and the theory of biological evolution. It is also of special significance for medical oriented research on tumors and other genetic diseases. After obtaining a doctoral degree in organic chemistry from the University of Sheffield, Richard Roberts went to Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher and eventually entered the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where a total of seven Nobel laureates were born. It was here that he achieved his first success in limiting enzymes and was awarded the Nobel Prize. Afterwards, he joined the New England Biology Laboratory as the Director of Research and Development.