Wendell Meredith Stanley

✶August 16, 1904

†June 15, 1971

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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.

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

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