Charles Gabriel Kurland (born 14 January 1936) is an American-born Swedish biochemist.
[2][4][5] Kurland's doctoral work dealt the structure of RNA,[6] and continued with the discovery of messenger RNA (mRNA), work that also involved François Gros, Walter Gilbert and James Watson.
[7] This was published simultaneously with the report by Sydney Brenner, François Jacob and Matthew Meselson of the same discovery.
[8] It was followed by numerous papers concerned with ribosomal proteins[9][10] In the later part of his career Kurland has been interested in the origins of mitochondria[11] and the tree of life.
[13] The Estonian Academy of Sciences recognized his achievements in biochemistry, and awarded Kurland an equivalent honor in 1991.