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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanford Moore has received more than 79,453 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Stanford Moore is the 102nd most popular chemist (up from 113th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from United States (up from 806th in 2019) and the 13th 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

Among chemists, Stanford Moore ranks 102 out of 602. Before him are Katalin Karikó, Karl Ziegler, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Hoffmann, and William Giauque. After him are Paul Berg, Ernest Solvay, Robert Robinson, Konrad Emil Bloch, Richard R. Ernst, and Fritz Strassmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Stanford Moore ranks 30. Before him are Roger Garaudy, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Paul Erdős, Silvio Piola, Bảo Đại, and Carmen Amaya. After him are Trevor Howard, Frances Farmer, Irwin Shaw, Wolfgang Paul, Leônidas, and Werner Mölders. Among people deceased in 1982, Stanford Moore ranks 33. Before him are John Belushi, Hugo Theorell, Gilles Villeneuve, Jiro Horikoshi, William Giauque, and Mikhail Suslov. After him are Curd Jürgens, Ivan Bagramyan, Hans Selye, Władysław Gomułka, Cevdet Sunay, and Bachir Gemayel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 650 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeff Goldblum (1952), D. B. Cooper (1931), George Beadle (1903), John Dillinger (1903), Alec Baldwin (1958), and Lionel Richie (1949). After him are Paul Berg (1926), George Minot (1885), Gary Becker (1930), Matthew C. Perry (1794), John Glenn (1921), and Billy Graham (1918).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 13. Before him are Irving Langmuir (1881), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Theodore William Richards (1868), James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927). After him are Paul Berg (1926), Harold Urey (1893), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), and Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904).

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