Moore, Stanford (1913-1982), an American biochemist, carried out pioneering research into the structure and chemistry of proteins. He was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He shared the award with American scientists William Howard Stein and Christian B. Anfinsen (see Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer ; Stein, William Howard ).
Moore’s work included using chromatography, a technique that separates the substances in a mixture of chemicals (see Chromatography ). He used this method to analyze the structures of amino acids and peptides, substances that are both constituents of proteins, and the enzyme ribonuclease, a substance that breaks ribonucleic acid (RNA) into molecules of other amino acids. See RNA .
Moore was born in Chicago. In 1938, he received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. He joined the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) in New York City in 1939 and, in 1952, he became a professor there.
