Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was an American
biochemist. He shared a
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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in 1972, with
Christian B. Anfinsen and
William Howard Stein, for work done at
Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme
ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the
chemical structure
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and
catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.
Moore attended
Peabody Demonstration School, now known as University School of Nashville, and in 1935 graduated
summa cum laude from
Vanderbilt University
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, where he was a member of
Phi Kappa Sigma. He earned his doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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in 1938. Moore then joined the staff of the Rockefeller Institute, later Rockefeller University, where he spent his entire professional career, with the exception of a period of government service during World War II. He became Professor of Biochemistry in 1952.
In 1958, he and
William H. Stein developed the first automated amino acid analyzer, which facilitated the determination of
protein sequences. In 1959, Moore and Stein announced the first determination of the complete amino acid sequence of an enzyme, ribonuclease, work which was cited in the Nobel award.
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* including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 ''The Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease''
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1913 births
1982 deaths
American biochemists
American Nobel laureates
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Nobel laureates in Chemistry
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Vanderbilt University alumni
Rockefeller University faculty