Christian B. Anfinsen

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1916 – 1995

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Who was Christian B. Anfinsen?

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. 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.

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Born
Mar 26, 1916
Monessen
Also known as
  • Christian Anfinsen
  • Christian B Anfinsen
  • Christian B. Anfinsen Jr.
Religion
  • Judaism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Swarthmore College
  • PhD, Harvard Medical School
    Biochemistry
    (1941 - 1943)
  • University of Pennsylvania
Employment
  • Johns Hopkins University
Lived in
  • Pikesville
Died
May 14, 1995
Randallstown

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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