biography
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Stanley, Wendell (Meredith)
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| lived:
| (1904–71)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Ridgeville, Indiana, USA. He studied at Illinois University, joining the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton in 1931, where he did important work on the chemical nature of viruses. He isolated and crystallized the tobacco mosaic virus, and worked on sterols and stereo-isomerism. He later became professor of molecular biology and of biochemistry at California, Berkeley (1948–71). He shared the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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