Thomas Cech
The Power List 2017 – Champions of Change
Thomas Cech
Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas is a scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and also a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado and Director of the university’s BioFrontiers Institute. His shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA in 1989. He recently won Colorado Boulder’s Hazel Barnes Prize.
