Wendell Meredith Stanley
American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
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Biochemist who cracked tobacco mosaic virus by isolating its nucleoprotein in the 1930s, fundamentally shifting how scientists understood viruses as chemical entities. Stanley's work on sterols and lepracidal compounds earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.
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