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Christian B. Anfinsen

1916 - 1995

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian B. Anfinsen is the 129th most popular chemist (up from 144th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from United States (up from 928th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Chemist.

Christian B. Anfinsen is most famous for his work in the field of molecular biology. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work on ribonuclease, a protein that breaks down RNA.

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Among chemists, Christian B. Anfinsen ranks 129 out of 602. Before him are Richard Kuhn, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, S. P. L. Sørensen, George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, and Paul Berg. After him are William E. Moerner, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Richard R. Ernst, Joseph Proust, John Cornforth, and Harold Urey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Christian B. Anfinsen ranks 20. Before him are Roald Dahl, Ahmed Ben Bella, João Havelange, Olivia de Havilland, Yehudi Menuhin, and Jean Dausset. After him are Camilo José Cela, Claude Shannon, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Hans Eysenck, Sune Bergström, and Maurice Wilkins. Among people deceased in 1995, Christian B. Anfinsen ranks 20. Before him are Milovan Đilas, Gunnar Nordahl, Dean Martin, Gerald Durrell, Konrad Zuse, and Anatoly Dyatlov. After him are Teresa Teng, William Alfred Fowler, Harold Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Clair Cameron Patterson, and U Nu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christian B. Anfinsen ranks 658 out of 20,380. Before him are Dian Fossey (1932), Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), William Lipscomb (1919), Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (1959), William S. Burroughs (1914), and Paul Berg (1926). After him are Dave Grohl (1969), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Chuck Jones (1912), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Bill Hewlett (1913), and George Herbert Mead (1863).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Christian B. Anfinsen ranks 26. Before him are Irving Langmuir (1881), Melvin Calvin (1911), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Edward W. Morley (1838), William Lipscomb (1919), and Paul Berg (1926). After him are William E. Moerner (1953), Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Jerome Karle (1918).

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