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Stanford Moore

1913 - 1982

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Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Moore attended Peabody Demonstration School, now known as University School of Nashville, and in 1935 graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. He earned his doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanford Moore is the 99th most popular chemist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 520th most popular biography from United States (up from 650th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Chemist.

Stanford Moore is most famous for his discovery of the first pulsar, which was a neutron star.

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Among chemists, Stanford Moore ranks 99 out of 602. Before him are M. Stanley Whittingham, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Theodore William Richards, William Howard Stein, and Arne Tiselius. After him are Konrad Emil Bloch, Vincent du Vigneaud, Joseph Black, Henrik Dam, George de Hevesy, and Paul J. Crutzen.

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Among people born in 1913, Stanford Moore ranks 22. Before him are Jesse Owens, Bảo Đại, Gustáv Husák, Ramón Mercader, Makarios III, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona. After him are Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Bill Hewlett, Silvio Piola, Paul Erdős, and Roger Garaudy. Among people deceased in 1982, Stanford Moore ranks 21. Before him are Philip K. Dick, William Giauque, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Vasily Chuikov, Karl von Frisch, and Erving Goffman. After him are Louis Aragon, Gilles Villeneuve, Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., and Hugo Theorell.

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Among people born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 520 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher Walken (1943), Nicole Kidman (1967), J. P. Morgan (1837), James Hong (1929), Robert Taylor (1911), and Talcott Parsons (1902). After him are Romina Power (1951), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Irwin Rose (1926), and Dean Martin (1917).

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Among chemists born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 18. Before him are Robert S. Mulliken (1896), James B. Sumner (1887), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Theodore William Richards (1868), and William Howard Stein (1911). After him are Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Irving Langmuir (1881), Melvin Calvin (1911), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Edward W. Morley (1838), and William Lipscomb (1919).

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