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  • Nobel Laureate Phillip Sharp recalls key moment at Illinois

    Nov 20, 2020 9:30 am by Kimberly WilsonGiving Stories
    Phillip Sharp (Photo courtesy of Science History Institute.)

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    • Phillip Sharp (Photo courtesy of Science History Institute.)

    This was a significant turning point in Sharp’s young career - a turning point he is forever grateful to the University of Illinois for - and he went on to receive the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing.