William Howard Stein

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William Howard Stein (June 25, 1911February 2, 1980) was an American biochemist.

He was born and died in New York City.

He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Preceded by
Gerhard Herzberg
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
with Christian B. Anfinsen
and Stanford Moore

1972
Succeeded by
Ernst Otto Fischer
and Geoffrey Wilkinson