Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore (born September 4, 1913 in Chicago , † August 23, 1982 in New York City ) was an American biochemist . He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work on the chemical structure and catalytic effect of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule.
biography
Stanford Moore studied chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and then went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he in 1938 Karl Paul Link with the work The Identification of Carbohydrates as benzimidazole derivatives doctorate . He then followed a call to a professorship for biochemistry in New York, where he worked with William Howard Stein . In 1960 he was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences .
plant
With the ribonuclease, William H. Stein and Stanford Moore succeeded for the first time in fully elucidating the primary structure of an enzyme molecule , using an amino acid analyzer they had developed. This device made it possible to resolve proteins made up of a large number of individual amino acids . The clarification of the structure paved the way to an understanding of this enzyme and laid the basis for research into further enzymes.
literature
- Bernhard Kupfer: Lexicon of Nobel Prize Winners. Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-72451-1
- Brockhaus Nobel Prizes - Chronicle of Outstanding Achievements. Brockhaus, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-7653-0492-1
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1972 award to Stanford Moore
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Stanford Moore at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Stanford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1982 |
| Place of death | New York City |