biography
pronunciation:
[lee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–87)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Canton, SE China. He studied at Nanjing, and from 1935 at Berkeley, where he became professor of biochemistry (1950). His main work was on the pituitary hormones: he isolated adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), and by 1956 had established its molecular structure. Ten years later he had similar success with the growth hormone, somatotropin, which he synthesized in 1970. |
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