Richard Roberts vs Phillip Sharp

Richard Roberts is a British biochemist recognized for independently discovering the split-gene structure of eukaryotic organisms. While researching the genetics of adenoviruses, he demonstrated that genes consist of both coding and non-coding sequences, separated by regions known as introns. This proved that RNA molecules must undergo a splicing process before proteins are synthesized. Roberts sh...

Phillip Sharp is an American molecular biologist whose research fundamentally changed the understanding of gene structure in higher organisms. Working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he co-discovered the process of RNA splicing, revealing that eukaryotic genes contain non-coding intervening sequences known as introns. These introns are removed from RNA transcripts before proteins are...