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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972

"for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"
"for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule"
Christian B. Anfinsen Stanford Moore William H. Stein
Christian B. Anfinsen Stanford Moore William H. Stein
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USA USA USA
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA		 Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA		 Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1916
d. 1995		 b. 1913
d. 1982		 b. 1911
d. 1980
 
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