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| | The Scientist : The First Automated Amino Acid Analyzer |
 | | Between 1949 and 1958, Rockefeller University researchers Stanford Moore, William Stein, and Darryl Spackman cobbled together a Rube Goldberg-like apparatus of pumps, flow meters, timers, a heating mantle, a resin reaction flask, a photometer, a water bath, and a recorder to analyze amino acid fragments as they emerged on chromatographic columns. |
 | | For their work on the structure and function of ribonuclease, Moore and Stein won the 1972 Nobel Prize in chemistry (sharing the award with Christian Anfinsen). |
 | | C.H.W. Hirs, S. Moore, W.H. Stein, "The sequence of the amino acid residues in performic acid-oxidized ribonuclease," J Biol Chem, 235:633-47, 1960. |
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