Christian B Anfinsen
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Christian B. Anfinsen

Christian B. Anfinsen in 1969
Personal information
Birth dateMarch 26, 1916
Birth placeMonessen, Pennsylvania
Death dateMay 14, 1995
Death placeRandallstown, Maryland
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College (BS, 1937)
University of Pennsylvania (MS, 1939)
Harvard Medical School (PhD, 1943)
Known forribonuclease, Anfinsen's dogma
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1972)

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Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 - May 14, 1995) was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma).

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National Medal of Science awarded to Stephen Benkovic of Penn State University - R & D Magazine Tweet this news
R & D Magazine---...- the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists in 1998, the -Christian B-. -Anfinsen- Award in 2000, the Merck Award of the American ... - Date : Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:54:58 GMT+00:00

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)



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