Stanford Moore:
Stanford Moore was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 4, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois
Death:
August 23, 1982 in New York, New York
Claim to Fame:
Moore was an American biochemist who shares half the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with William H. Stein for their research into the ribonuclease molecule. They determined the structure of ribonuclease and discovered its catalytic properties during food digestion. Stein and Moore later applied these same techniques to discover the sequence of deoxyribonuclease.