Williams, Howard

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. 

G. Macfarlane, Howard Florey the making of a great scientist, Oxford University Press, 1979 T. I. Williams, Howard Florey penicillin and after, Oxford University Press, 1984 E. Lax, The mould in Dr Florey s coat the remarkable true story of the penicillin miracle. Little, Brown, London, 2004 V. Quirke, Collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry, chap. 3, Routledge, New York, 2007 R. Bud, Penicillin triumph and tragedy, Oxford University Press, 2007. 

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. 

In the early 1930s, one fad diet, known as the Hay Diet, after its promoter Dr. William Howard Hay, stressed the incompatibility of proteins and carbohydrates, and that foods rich in each should be eaten in separate meals. 

The Hay Diet was first described by Dr. William Howard Hay in 1933 in his book. Health Via Food. Dr. Hay recommended that proteins and carbohydrates not be eaten at the same meal. 

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