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The president of the University between 2006 and 2021 served as chancellor emeritus before his passing Tuesday.

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak joined the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry in September 2022. As University Professor, Szostak will lead the University’s new interdisciplinary Origins of Life Initiative, which aims to understand the earliest forms and cycles of life on Earth and elsewhere. In 2009, Szostak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or...

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak joined the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry in September 2022. As University Professor, Szostak will lead the University’s new interdisciplinary Origins of Life Initiative, which aims to understand the earliest forms and cycles of life on Earth and elsewhere. In 2009, Szostak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or...