William Howard Stein:
William Howard Stein was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
June 25, 1911 in New York, New York
Death:
February 2, 1980 in New York, New York
Claim to Fame:
Stein was an American biochemist who shares half the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore 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.
