New York: Molecular Biologist Sol Spiegelman dies at 68.
Author of over 350 papers, with general focus on DNA and RNA. CCNY (1939), Columbia (1940), post–graduate work at Washington University (1942–44). Fellow at University of Minnesota, Faculty of University of Illinois.
Credited with an experiment with self–replicating RNA structures called Spiegelman’s Monster. Spiegelman was the recipient of the Lasker Award (1974) and the Feltrinelli International Prize in Biology (1981).