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* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1993)<ref name="nobel1">{{Cite journal | last1 = Shampo | first1 = M. A. | last2 = Kyle | first2 = R. A. | doi = 10.4065/78.2.132 | title = Richard J. Roberts—Nobel Laureate for Discovery of Split Genes | journal = Mayo Clinic Proceedings | volume = 78 | issue = 2 | page = 132 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12583523| doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="nobel4">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1038/365597a0 | title = Nobel goes to discoverers of 'split genes' | journal = Nature | first=Kimberly|last=Carr| volume = 365 | issue = 6447 | page = 597 | year = 1993 | pmid = 8413620| bibcode = 1993Natur.365..597C | doi-access = free }}</ref>
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1995)<ref name="whoswho"/><ref name=frs/>
* [[EMBO Membership]] (1995)<ref name=membo>{{cite web|url=http://people.embo.org/profile/richard-j-roberts|title=Richard J. Roberts EMBO profile|website=people.embo.org|publisher=[[European Molecular Biology Organization]]|location=Heidelberg|author=Anon|year=2016}}</ref>
* [[Knight Bachelor]] (2008)<ref name="whoswho"/>
* [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (2021)<ref>[http://www.ras.ru/news/news_release.aspx?ID=72609491-fb8d-4235-97a2-0853af546268 Lomonosov Gold Medal 2021](in Russian)</ref>
▲* [[PhD]] (1969)<ref name="robertsphd"/>}}
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'''Sir Richard John Roberts''' (born 6 September 1943) {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name=frs/> is a British [[biochemist]] and [[molecular biology|molecular biologist]]. He was awarded the 1993 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] with [[Phillip Allen Sharp]] for the discovery of [[intron]]s in [[eukaryote|eukaryotic]] [[DNA]] and the mechanism of [[Genetic engineering|gene-splicing]]. He currently works at [[New England Biolabs]].<ref>{{Cite journal
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==Awards and honours==
In 1992, Roberts received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Medicine at [[Uppsala University]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/ |title=Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden |website=Uu.se |date=2016-08-17 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> After becoming a Nobel Laureate in 1993 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the [[University of Bath]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceremonies/hongrads/ |title=Honorary Graduates 1989 to present |work=bath.ac.uk | publisher = [[University of Bath]] |access-date=18 February 2012}}</ref> Roberts also received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> In 2021 he was awarded the [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] of the Russian Academy of Sciences.<ref>[http://www.ras.ru/news/news_release.aspx?ID=72609491-fb8d-4235-97a2-0853af546268 Lomonosov Gold Medal 2021](in Russian)</ref>
Roberts was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1995|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995]]<ref name=frs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006213105/https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/ |archive-date=2015-10-06 |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-roberts-12188/ |title=Sir Richard Roberts FRS |publisher=[[Royal Society]] |location=London |author=Anon |year=1995 }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=25 September 2015}}}}</ref> and a [[EMBO Member|member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)]] in the same year.<ref name=membo/> In 2005, a multimillion-pound expansion to the chemistry department at the [[University of Sheffield]], where he had been a student, was named after him. A refurbished science department at [[Beechen Cliff School]] (previously City of Bath Boys' School) was also named after Roberts, who had donated a substantial sum of his Nobel prize winnings to the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.beechencliff.org.uk/prospect/prospectus3.html|title=Beechen Cliff School website}} {{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref>
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