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Stein, William

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Stein, William (Howard) (1911–80) biochemist; born in New York City. Beginning in 1938 at the Rockefeller Institute, he and Stanford Moore set about analyzing the amino acids in proteins; by 1960 they had determined the amino acid sequence of ribonuclease. Stein and Moore shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1972) with Christian Anfinsen. Stein remained affiliated with Rockefeller University until about 1970.


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In Paris in 1923, he used money from Bryher's family to establish the Contact Publishing Company, which published modernist works by Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Nathanael West.
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