William Stanley, American Biochemist

Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 - June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist. In 1931 he became an assistant at the Rockefeller Institute, the post he held until 1948. He later became Professor of Biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley. His work contributed to on lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry and the chemistry of the sterols. His researches on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity. Stanley was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1946. Most of the conclusions he had presented in his Nobel winning research were soon shown to be incorrect (in particular, that the crystals of mosaic virus he had isolated were pure protein, and assembled by autocatalysis). He died in 1971 at the age of 66

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