Definition of stanford moore in English English dictionary
born Sept. 4, 1913, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died Aug. 23, 1982, New York, N.Y. U.S. biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize with Christian Anfinsen (1916-95) and William Stein (1911-80) for research on the molecular structures of proteins. He is best known for his applications of chromatography to the analysis of amino acids and peptides obtained from proteins and biological fluids and for the use of those analyses in determining the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease