William Howard Stein, in partnership with Stanford Moore, was a pioneer in the field of protein chemistry. Although other scientists had previously established that proteins could play such roles as that of enzymes, antibodies, hormones, and oxygen...

1911-1980 American biochemist who received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shared with Stanford Moore and Christian Anfinsen, for research on the complex structure of protein molecules. Stein helped develop an efficient way of analyzing and...

He was born and died in New York City. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical...