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Christian B. Anfinsen

Chemistry

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. was an American biochemist who lived from 1916 to 1995. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on the enzyme ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between its amino acid sequence and its biologically active conformation, a finding known as Anfinsen's dogma.

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Birth Year
1916 1
Death Date
1995-05-14 1
Death Year
1995 1
Death Place
Randallstown, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Monessen, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Biology 1
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1. Christian B. Anfinsen (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1995-05-14T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1995-05-14T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Randallstown, United States
    Q755604
  • P19 (place of birth): Monessen, United States
    Q1186680
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Christian B. Anfinsen (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Biochemistry, Infobox, fields
    Infobox fields: Biochemistry
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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