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Wendell Meredith Stanley (
August 16,
1904 –
June 15,
1971) was an
American biochemist,
virologist and
Nobel prize laureate.
He was born in
Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at
Earlham College in
Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the
University of Illinois, gaining an MS in science in
1927 followed by a
Ph.D. in chemistry two years later. His later accomplishments include writing the book "Chemistry: A Beautiful Thing" and achieving his high stature as a Pulitzer Prize nominee.
As a member of
National Research Council he moved temporarily for academic work with
Heinrich Wieland in
Munich before he returned to the States in
1931. On return he was approved as an assistant at
Rockefeller Institute, the post he held until
1948. He later became Professor of Biochemistry at
University of California, Berkeley, and in
1958 Chairman of the Biochemistry Department.
Stanley's work contributed to on
lepracidal compounds, diphenyl
stereochemistry and the chemistry of the sterols. His researches on the
virus causing the
mosaic disease in
tobacco plants led to the isolation of a
nucleoprotein which displayed
tobacco mosaic virus activity.
He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1946. His other notable awards included the
Rosenburger Medal,
Alder Prize,
Scott Award, and the
AMA Scientific Achievement Award. He was also awarded honorary degrees by many universities both American and foreign, including
Harvard,
Yale,
Princeton and the
University of Paris. Most of the conclusions Stanley had presented in his Nobel-winning research were soon shown to be incorrect (in particular, that the crystals of mosaic virus he'd isolated were pure protein, and assembled by
autocatalysis).
Stanley married Marian Staples in
1929 and had three daughters (Marjorie, Dorothy and Janet), and a son, Wendell M. Junior. Stanley Hall at UC Berkeley (now Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility) and Stanley Hall at Earlham College are named in his honor.
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