Christian B. Anfinsen
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1972for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 3/26/1916
- place of birth
- Monessen
- date of death
- 5/14/1995
- place of death
- Randallstown
- Lived
- 79 years
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- educated at
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- Harvard Medical School
- academic major: biochemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- start time: 1941
- end time: 1943
- University of Pennsylvania
- Swarthmore College
- Monessen High School
- Harvard Medical School
- member of
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- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1975
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- employer
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- Johns Hopkins University
- Harvard University
- field of work
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- biochemistry
- occupation
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- chemist
- university teacher
- biochemist
- biophysicist