Amino Acid Analyzer (part)
notes: label: Description
content: This is the first automatic amino acid analyzer that Stanford Moore (1913-1982) and William H. Stein (1911-1980) developed at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, and used to elucidate the primary structure of ribonuclease, the first enzyme to have its sequence revealed. Moore and Stein won the Nobel Prize for this work in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: “SCIENTISTS LEARN PROTEIN’S SECRET,” New York Times (Nov. 7, 1959), p. 8.
label: Description
content: “STANFORD MOORE, A NOBEL LAUREATE,” New York Times (Aug. 24, 1982), p. B10.
label: Description
content: “Dr. William H. Stein in Dead at 68; Shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry,” New York Times (Feb. 3, 1980), p. 29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Nobel Prize
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rockefeller University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0188.01.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0188.01.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Amino Acid Analyzer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 cm x 114 cm x 91.4 cm; 8 1/2 in x 44 7/8 in x 36 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 10 3/8 in x 43 1/4 in x 36 1/4 in; 26.3525 cm x 109.855 cm x 92.075 cm