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Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (–)
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (March 26, &#;– May 14, )[1] was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acidsequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma).[2][3]
Background
Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, into a family of Norwegian-American immigrants.
His parents were Sophie (née Rasmussen) and Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Sr., a mechanical engineer. The family moved to Philadelphia in the s. In , he went to Swarthmore College where he played varsity football and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in [3]
In , he earned a master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship to develop new methods for analyzing the chem