Editing Stanford Moore (section)

{{Short description|American biochemist (1930–1982)}}
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|name              = Stanford Moore
|image             = Stanford Moore.jpg
|birth_date        = {{birth date|1913|9|4}}
|birth_place       = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]
|death_date        = {{death date and age|1982|8|23|1913|9|4}}
|death_place       = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|residence         = 
|citizenship       = 
|nationality       = [[United States of America|U.S.]]
|ethnicity         = 
|field             = [[Biochemistry]]
|work_institutions = [[Rockefeller University]]
|alma_mater        = [[Vanderbilt University]]<br>[[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]<br>University School of Nashville
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Karl Paul Link]]
|thesis_title=The identification of carbohydrates as benzimidazole derivatives
|thesis_url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/608512733
|thesis_year=1938
|doctoral_students = 
|known_for         = [[Ribonuclease]]
|influences        = 
|influenced        = 
|prizes            = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1972
|religion          = 
}}
'''Stanford Moore''' (September 4, 1913 &ndash; 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 [[catalysis|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]].  He earned his doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1938.  Moore then joined the staff of the Rockefeller Institute, later Rockefeller University, where he spent his entire professional career, with the exception of a period of government service during World War II.  He became Professor of Biochemistry in 1952.

In 1958, he and [[William H. Stein]] developed the first automated amino acid analyzer, which facilitated the determination of [[protein sequence]]s. In 1959, Moore and Stein announced the first determination of the complete amino acid sequence of an enzyme, ribonuclease, work which was cited in the Nobel award.