Stanford Moore Summary

Stanford Moore 1913-1982 American biochemist who received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with William Stein and Christian Anfinsen, for his research on the structure of protein molecules. M... Read more

Stanford Moore was born in 1913, in Chicago, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father was a professor at Vanderbilt University's School of Law. In 1935 Moore... Read more

Stanford Moore's work in protein chemistry greatly advanced understanding of the composition of enzymes , the complex proteins that serve as catalysts for countless biochemical processes. Moore's rese... Read more