Education
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Steitz studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1962.
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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Steitz studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1962.
In June 2010, the University renamed its chemistry building Thomas A. Hall of Science. did postdoctoral research as a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge during 1967–1970. joined the Yale faculty in 1970, where he continued to work on cellular and structural biology. and Peter Moore determined the atomic structure of the large 50S ribosomal subunit using X-ray crystallography, and published their findings in Science in 2000. He was also a Macy Fellow at the University of Göttingen during 1976–1977 and a Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology during 1984-1985. They live in Branford, Connecticut and have one son, Jon.
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences]
While there he was a member of the fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, the Delta Nu chapter. Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2011.