Charles Yanofsky

Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky
Born	April 17, 1925; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	March 16, 2018 (aged 92); Palo Alto, California
Alma mater	City College of New York; Yale University (Ph.D, 1951)
Known for	data supporting one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, mechanism of suppression, attenuation of expression of bacterial operons
Awards	National Medal of Science (2003); Passano Award (1992); Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1990); Genetics Society of America Medal (1983); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1976); Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology (1972); Albert Lasker Award (1971); NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1964); Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award (1959);
	Scientific career
Fields	Genetics microbiology
Institutions	Stanford University
Website	profiles.stanford.edu/charles-yanofsky

Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925 – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.

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