Stanley, Wendell

Stanley, Wendell (Meredith)

(1904–71) biochemist; born in Ridgeville, Ind. Working at the Rockefeller Institute (1931–48), he began his research on the tobacco mosaic virus that would eventually establish the chemical nature of viruses and gain him a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1946). He established the virus lab at the University of California: Berkeley (1948) and remained there until his death.