Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993, announced October 11, 1993. Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp, “for their discoveries of split genes”. Richard J. Roberts: born 1943, Derby, United Kingdom. Phillip A. Sharp: born 1944, Falmouth, KY, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).