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Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical ...
Aug 19, 2024 · Stanford Moore (born Sept. 4, 1913, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 23, 1982, New York, N.Y.) was an American biochemist, who, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their research on the molecular structures of proteins.
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A skilled teacher of science, R.O. Beauchamp, kindled an interest in chemistry. Moore entered Vanderbilt University undecided between a career in chemistry or aeronautical engineering. The courses which he took in the engineering school presaged a concern for instrumentation.
Stanford Moore. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972. Born: 4 September 1913, Chicago, IL, USA. Died: 23 August 1982, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
In the 1940s and ’50s, Stanford Moore and his colleague William H. Stein, two members of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, broke open the field of biochemistry by theorizing how each individual enzyme is programmed to accomplish its own unique catalytic task.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 was divided, one half awarded to Christian B. Anfinsen "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation", the other half jointly to Stanford Moore and William H. Stein "for their contribution to the understanding of the ...
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1913-1982. American biochemist who received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with William Stein and Christian Anfinsen, for his research on the structure of protein molecules. Moore and Stein developed an efficient way of analyzing each of the 20 common amino acids that make up proteins.
