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Joan A. Steitz

American biochemistborn 1941

Supervised 2 doctoral students; Wikidata names James Watson as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Students2

cited by a thesis record
Abhijit A. Patel “The splicing of U12-type introns is a rate-limiting step in gene expression”
2002 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Susanna In-Sun Lee “An oncogenic herpesvirus encodes five novel U snRNas called HSURs”
1990 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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James Watson

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataJames Watson
2 steps up
stated by WikidataSalvador Luria

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career3

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until 1963
Antioch College
studied
until 1967
Harvard University
studied
undated
Yale University
worked

At a glance

known as: biochemist, university teacher, biophysicist
fields: biophysics, biochemistry
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy
awards: Canada Gairdner International Award, 2006, L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, 2001, NAS Award in Molecular Biology, 1982, E. B. Wilson Medal, 2005, Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize, 2004, National Medal of Science, 1986, FASEB Excellence in Science Award, 2003, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, 2008, Albany Medical Center Prize, 2008, Max Delbrück Medal, 2000, Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, 2012, Rosenstiel Award, 2001, Keith R. Porter Lecture, 1992, Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science, 2013, Sterling Professor, Weizmann Women & Science Award, 1994, Dickson Prize in Science, 1989, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research, 2011, Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, 2018, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2014, honorary doctor of Brandeis University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia, Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, 2012, Wolf Prize in Medicine, 2021, Murray Goodman Memorial Prize, 2015, Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 2021
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 1983, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, from 2002, Royal Society of London, 2014, New York Academy of Medicine
Wikipedia: in 19 languages

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Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJoan A. Steitz
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1690702
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-0534-8722
stated by WikidataVIAF35921028
stated by WikidataIdRef276276353
stated by WikidataISNI0000000079443365

papers

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Read on 30 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1690702,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Joan A. Steitz: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1690702},
  note = {read on 2026-10-30}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 30). Joan A. Steitz: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-30]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1690702