Artur Lind (6 April 1927,
Vändra
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Vändra is the birthplace of Estonian journalist and poet Johann Voldemar Jan ...
– 30 November 1989,
Tartu
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)
was an Estonian
biologist
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and is considered to be the founder of
molecular biology
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in Estonia.
Lind studied to be a
surgeon at the
University of Tartu
The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ãœlikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...
. Due to an allergic reaction to
analgesic
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s used at the time, he was unable to continue working as a surgeon and moved to the
faculty
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of
biochemistry
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instead.
He is credited with the discovery of
5S ribosomal RNA
The 5S ribosomal RNA (5S rRNA) is an approximately 120 nucleotide-long ribosomal RNA molecule with a mass of 40 kDa. It is a structural and functional component of the large subunit of the ribosome in all domains of life (bacteria, archaea, an ...
.
His remains are buried in Vana-Jaani cemetery in
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...
.
The Sepapaja 6 office building in
Ãœlemiste City
Ãœlemiste City is a business park in Tallinn, Estonia, on the territory of the former factory complex Dvigatel in Ãœlemiste neighbourhood. It is situated between Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, shopping centre Ãœlemiste Keskus and the Ãœlem ...
is named after Artur Lind.
References
Estonian biologists
1927 births
1989 deaths
Molecular biologists
Estonian surgeons
People from Vändra
University of Tartu alumni
20th-century surgeons
20th-century biologists
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