Stein, William Howard

Stein, William Howard (1911-80) American biochemist who worked with Stanford Moore to produce a new method of column chromatography by which they were able to separate and identify amino acids from a mix of material produced by the hydrolysis of proteins. Stein, Moore, and Christian Anfmsen shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

William Howard Stein fl 911-1980) was born in New York City and received his Ph.D. in 1938 from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He immediately joined the faculty of the Rockefeller Institute, where he remained until his death. In 1972, he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work with Stanford Moore on developing methods of amino acid analysis and for determining the structure of ribonuclease. 

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