biography
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Anfinsen, Christian (Boehmer)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–95)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Harvard, and taught there before moving to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD (1949–62, 1963–82). In 1962 he showed that the structure of active ribonuclease is physiologically the most stable arrangement of amino acids and that the sequence of amino acids determines its function. For this work, begun in the mid-1940s, he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1972). In 1972 he began working on interferon, eventually isolating the substance. He was appointed professor of biology at Johns Hopkins (1982). |
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