Wendell Meredith Stanley:
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
August 16, 1904 in Ridgeville, Indiana
Death:
June 15, 1971 in Salamanca, Spain.
Claim to Fame:
Stanley was an American biochemist who shares half the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Howard Northrop for their production of pure samples of enzymes and virus proteins. He isolated the nucleoprotein that activates the tobacco mosaic virus.
