The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
Awarded on: 1946-11-14
"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – Princeton, NJ, USA
Wendell Meredith Stanley
Born: 1904-08-16 in Ridgeville, IN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist, virologist, and Nobel laureate (1904–1971)
Biography
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to on lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.