Peter Moore (chemist)
Peter Bartlett Moore (born October 15, 1939 in Boston ) is an American chemist and sterling professor at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut .
Life
Moore earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut in 1961 and received his PhD in 1966 from James Watson at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire at the University of Geneva . From 1967 to 1969 he worked in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge .
1969 was Moore, a junior professor (assistant professor) at Yale University. A Guggenheim scholarship led him to the University of Oxford in 1979/1980 . In 1979 Moore became a full professor at Yale, he headed the chemistry department from 1987 to 1990 . In 2002 he was appointed Sterling Professor ; the Sterling Professorship is Yale University's highest academic honor.
Act
Moore did fundamental work in the study of RNA . He was able to show that the formation of peptide bonds within the ribosomes is catalyzed by ribosomal RNA . Other interactions between the RNA and other cellular components are the subject of his continued (status 2010) studies. Moore investigates relationships between the structure and function of RNA using crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in particular .
Thomas A. Steitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his joint scientific work with Moore .
Awards (selection)
- 1986 NIH Merit Award
- 1997 membership in the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Rosenstiel Award
- 2003 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (complete work), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 3121
Web links
- Peter B. Moore at yale.edu; Retrieved December 22, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://proton.chem.yale.edu/html/research.html ( Memento from April 22, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Peter B. Moore at academictree.org, accessed on January 3, 2019.
- ^ Peter Moore is appointed to Sterling chair at yale.edu; accessed on May 7, 2019.
- ^ Moore, Peter B. at nasonline.org; Retrieved December 22, 2010
- ^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Peter B .; Moore, Peter Bartlett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |