What is Angelika Amon?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Angelika Amon | image = Angelikaamon.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Angelika Amon in October 2017. | birth_date = January 10, 1967 | birth_place = [[Vienna]], Austria | death_date = October 29, 2020 (aged 53) | death_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S. | residence = | citizenship = [[Austria]] & [[United States]] | nationality = [[Austrian people|Austrian]] | fields = | workplaces = {{unbulleted list |[[Whitehead Institute]] (1994–1999) |[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (1999–2020) |[[Research Institute of Molecular Pathology]]}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[University of Vienna]] (B.S.) |[[University of Vienna]] (PhD, 1993)}} | doctoral_advisor = [[Kim Nasmyth]] | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Chromosome duplication and cell division | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{unbulleted list|1998 [[Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers]] |2003 [[Alan T. Waterman Award]] |2003 [[Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award]] |2007 [[Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research]] (shared with [[Todd Golub|Todd R. Golub]] and [[Gregory Hannon|Gregory J. Hannon]]) |2008 [[NAS Award in Molecular Biology]]|2013 [[Ernst Jung Prize]] |2018 [[Vanderbilt University Medical Center#Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science|Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science]] |2019 [[Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences]] |2019 [[Vilcek Prize]]}} | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | ethnicity = | religion = }} '''Angelika Amon''', PhD (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an [[Austrian]]-[[Americans|American]] [[molecular biology|molecular]] and [[cell biologist]]. She was the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], [[United States]]. Amon's research focused on how chromosomes are regulated and repeated in the [[cell cycle]].