Stanley, William Meredith
Stanley, William Meredith,
1904–71, American biochemist, b. Ridgeville, Ind., Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1929. He was a professor at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller Univ.) from 1932 to 1948 and at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, from 1948 to 1971. Stanley was a corecipient with James SumnerSumner, James Batcheller,1887–1955, American biochemist, b. Canton, Mass., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, 1914. He was a professor at Cornell from 1914 until his death in 1955.
..... Click the link for more information. and John NorthropNorthrop, John Howard,
1891–1987, American chemist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., Ph.D. Columbia, 1915. He was a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller Univ.) from 1916 until his retirement in 1961.
..... Click the link for more information. of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946. He and Northrop were cited for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form. Stanley crystallized the tobacco mosaic virus and established its molecular structure, paving the way for other scientists to determine the molecular structures and propagation modes of other viruses.