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Wendell Meredith Stanley
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American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist and virologist who made groundbreaking discoveries about the structure of viruses. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for his work, which helped establish viruses as a distinct category of biological entity that could be studied scientifically.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1946
“for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Meredith
- Family name
- Stanley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ridgeville
- Place of death
- Salamanca
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- Earlham College
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Roger Adams
- Field of work
- virology
- Image
- Wendell Meredith Stanley.jpg
- Residence
- California
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- Commons category
- Wendell Meredith Stanley
- date of birth
- 1904-08-16
- date of death
- 1971-06-15
- influenced by
- Dmitri Ivanovsky
- member of
- Japan Academy
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Wendell Meredith Stanley
- P8168
- Ponětovice
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.
Biography
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