Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009) Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2011 Steitz was married to Joan A. Steitz, a distinguished molecular biologist who is also a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale.
Nobel Kimia (2009) Terpilih sebagai Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) pada tahun 2011 Steitz menikahi Joan A. Steitz, seorang ahli biologi molekuler terkemuka yang juga merupakan Profesor Sterling Biofisika Molekuler dan Biokimia di Yale.