biography
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| lived:
| (1913–82)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied chemistry at Vanderbilt and Wisconsin universities, and spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1939–82). In the 1950s, with William Stein, he devised a general method for finding the identity of the number of amino acids in protein molecules. By 1958 they had developed an ingenious automated analyser to carry out all the steps of the analysis of the structure of RNA on a small sample. They shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972, and later devised a method of analyzing DNA. |
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