Thomas R. Cech and Sidney Altman also played a role in the discovery , winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989 for their independent discoveries that RNA can act as a catalyst in cell development ( http :\ / \ / www.colorado.edu \ / news\/nobel\/cech \ / ) .
Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman also played a role in the discovery , winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989 for their independent discoveries that RNA can act as a catalyst in cell development .