William Howard Stein
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William Howard Stein | |
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William Howard Stein |
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Born | June 25, 1911 |
Died | February 2, 1980 (aged 1068) |
Field | biochemist |
Notable prizes | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972) |
William Howard Stein (June 25, 1911 – February 2, 1980) was an American biochemist.
He was born and died in New York City.
He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.
[edit] References
- Stanford Moore (1980). "William H. Stein". J. Biol. Chem. 255: 9517-9518.
[edit] External links
- Stein's Nobel Foundation biography
- Stein's Nobel Lecture The Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease
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Preceded by Gerhard Herzberg |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Christian B. Anfinsen and Stanford Moore 1972 |
Succeeded by Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson |
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Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) · Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) · Hermann Staudinger (1953) · Linus Pauling (1954) · Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) · Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) · Alexander Todd (1957) · Frederick Sanger (1958) · Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) · Willard Libby (1960) · Melvin Calvin (1961) · Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) · Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) · Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) · Robert Woodward (1965) · Robert S. Mulliken (1966) · Manfred Eigen / Norrish / George Porter (1967) · Lars Onsager (1968) · Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) · Luis Federico Leloir (1970) · Gerhard Herzberg (1971) · Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) · E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) · Paul Flory (1974) · John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975) |