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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (102) |
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| complete name: |
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
1972 |
| together with: |
Stanford Moore |
| together with: |
William Howard Stein |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
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 connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Christian |
| family name: |
Anfinsen |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
biochemist |
| field of work: |
biochemistry |
| work location: |
Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218-2688, United States of America |
| description: |
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1972/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1916 |
| date death: |
1995 |
| usual name: |
Christian Anfinsen |
