Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley (born August 16, 1904 in Ridgeville , Indiana , † June 15, 1971 in Salamanca , Spain ) was an American chemist , biochemist and virologist .
Stanley first succeeded in unambiguous detection of viruses when he was able to crystallize tobacco mosaic viruses . Previously it was only known that there had to be very small pathogens that could not be filtered off by the usual bacterial filters. He reported on his findings on June 28, 1935 in the US science magazine Science .
In 1946 he and John Howard Northrop received the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their preparation of enzymes and viral proteins in their pure form , while James Batcheller Sumner received the award for his discovery of the crystallizability of enzymes . In 1940 Stanley was elected to the American Philosophical Society , 1941 to the National Academy of Sciences, and 1949 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1970 he became an external member of the Académie des Sciences .
In 1948 he became professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley .
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the award ceremony for Wendell Meredith Stanley in 1946
- Literature by and about Wendell Meredith Stanley in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Images Of Poliomyelitis - A Critique Of Scientific Literature ( Memento June 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on Ralph R. Scobey: Is Human Poliomyelitis Caused By An Exogenous Virus? In: Science , 1954, 51, 117 and Archives of pediatrics. Volume 71, Number 4, April 1954, pp. 111-123, ISSN 0096-6630 . PMID 13159495 .
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| SURNAME | Stanley, Wendell Meredith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ridgeville , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th June 1971 |
| Place of death | Salamanca , Spain |