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William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who lived from 1911 to 1980 and made important contributions to understanding the structure and function of proteins. His work in biochemistry advanced scientific knowledge about how proteins are built and operate, which has had lasting importance for medicine and biology.
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William Howard Stein is indexed among the 198 entries in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Chemistry collection. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.
Within Vinony's link graph, William Howard Stein is referenced by 246 other articles, and connects out to Christian B. Anfinsen, The Rockefeller University and New York City.
It sits within the topics 1911 births, 1980 deaths and 20th-century American biochemists.
Its subject is documented across 53 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Chromatography, by William H. Stein & Stanford Moore
- The composition of elastin ..
- The structure of proteins
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1946-01-14
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,994x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,845x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,574x
- <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program
· 2009 · cited 31,500x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1911-06-25 ) June 25, 1911, New York City , New York, USA
- Died
- February 2, 1980 (1980-02-02) (aged 68), New York City , New York, USA
- Education
- Harvard University , Columbia University
- Spouse s
- Phoebe Hockstader (1936–1980; his death; 3 children) (1913–1989)
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972)
- Fields
- Biochemistry
- Institutions
- Rockefeller University , University of Chicago
- Thesis
- The Composition of Elastin (1938)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans Thacher Clarke
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1972
“for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule”
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- date of birth
- 1911-06-25
- date of death
- 1980-02-02
- name in native language
- William Howard Stein
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Encyclopedic overview
William Howard Stein (June 25, 1911 – February 2, 1980) was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work. Stein was also involved in the invention of the automatic amino acid analyzer, an advancement in chromatography that opened the door to modern methods of chromatography, such as liquid chromatography and gas chromatography.
Life and education
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