1913 - 1982
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 74,533 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Stanford Moore is the 113th most popular chemist (up from 166th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,249th in 2019) and the 17th 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 113 out of 509. Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Antoni Grabowski, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Paul J. Crutzen, and James Dewar. After him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Leopold Ružička, Avram Hershko, John Macleod, Casimir Funk, and Richard R. Ernst.
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 107
1857 - 1921
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 108
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 109
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 110
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 111
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 112
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 113
1758 - 1836
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 114
1887 - 1976
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 115
1937 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 116
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 117
1884 - 1967
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 118
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 119
Among people born in 1913, Stanford Moore ranks 36. Before him are Erich Priebke, Frances Farmer, Silvio Piola, Witold Lutosławski, Leônidas, and Carmen Amaya. After him are Artur Axmann, Wolfgang Paul, Roger Wolcott Sperry, René Clément, Willis Lamb, and Gert Fröbe. Among people deceased in 1982, Stanford Moore ranks 36. Before him are Hugo Theorell, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Georges Perec, Curd Jürgens, Cevdet Sunay, and John Belushi. After him are Władysław Gomułka, Thelonious Monk, Jiro Horikoshi, Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, and Peter Weiss.
1913 - 2013
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 30
1913 - 1970
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 31
1913 - 1996
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 32
1913 - 1994
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 33
1913 - 2004
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 34
1913 - 1963
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 35
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 36
1913 - 1996
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 37
1913 - 1993
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 38
1913 - 1994
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 39
1913 - 1996
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 40
1913 - 2008
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 41
1913 - 1988
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 42
1903 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 30
1896 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 31
1936 - 1982
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 32
1915 - 1982
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 33
1899 - 1982
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 34
1949 - 1982
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 35
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 36
1905 - 1982
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 37
1917 - 1982
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 38
1903 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 39
1900 - 1982
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 40
1901 - 1982
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 41
1916 - 1982
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 42
Among people born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 806 out of 18,182. Before him are Joseph Campbell (1904), Robert Solow (1924), Danny Glover (1946), John Belushi (1949), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Hilary Putnam (1926). After him are Ice-T (1958), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), Louise Hay (1926), Christopher Lambert (1957), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and Nancy Pelosi (1940).
1904 - 1987
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 800
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 801
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 802
1949 - 1982
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 803
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 804
1926 - 2016
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 805
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 806
1958 - Present
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 807
1962 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 808
1926 - 2017
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 809
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 810
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 811
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 812
Among chemists born in United States, Stanford Moore ranks 17. Before him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Harold Urey (1893), Willard Libby (1908), James B. Sumner (1887), and Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904). After him are William Howard Stein (1911), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Paul Berg (1926), and Robert W. Holley (1922).
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 12
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 13
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 14
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 15
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 16
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 17
1911 - 1980
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 18
1912 - 1999
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 19
1917 - 1979
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 20
1916 - 1995
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 21
1926 - 2023
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 22
1922 - 1993
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 23