The Formation of Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins"
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(This information was taken from the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series Program 1983-1984).
Dr. Anfinsen, a Nobel laureate, is Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Dr. Anfinsen received the Ph.D. degree in 1943 from Harvard University Medical School. In 1972 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein for their studies of the enzyme ribonuclease. . Dr. Anfinsen was Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovet, Israel from 1981 to 1982. He served as Chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology of the Nationall Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases from 1963 to 1981. He has taught at Harvard Medical School, served as Chief of the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism of the National Heart Institute and was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1970. He has been a Naff lecturer at the University of Kentucky, Kempner lecturer at the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Mathers lecturer at Indiana University-Bloomington, Jubilee lecturer of the British Biochemical Society, Leon lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and Kelly lecturer at Purdue University. He received the 1954 Rockefeller Foundation Public Service Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958, and a National Science Foundation Travel Award in 1959. Dr. Anfinsen is a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the Pontifical Academy of Science.
His Work: Dr. Anfinsen's research interests have included the study of non-uniform labelling in newly-synthesized proteins, study of the relationship between structure and function in enzymes, investigations of an extracellular nuclease of Stnplrylococrns nureus, and study of the isolation and chemical characterization of human interferon. Most recently he has been involved with the study of certain extreme thermophilic bacteria found in vents along the tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean floor.
His Lecture: March 13, 1984: "The Formation of Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins"
Keywords
Biological Chemistry
Creation Date
March 13, 1984
Recommended Citation
Anfinsen, Christian B,, "The Formation of Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins"" (1984). DSLS 1983-1984. 1.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/dsls_1983_1984/1