Wendell Meredith Stanley

Wendell Meredith Stanley
Stanley in 1946
Born(1904-08-16)August 16, 1904
Ridgeville, Indiana, USA
DiedJune 15, 1971(1971-06-15) (aged 66)
Salamanca, Spain
Alma materEarlham College
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize (1936)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
William H. Nichols Medal (1946)
Willard Gibbs Award (1947)
Franklin Medal (1948)
Order of the Rising Sun (1966)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsRockefeller Institute
University of California, Berkeley

Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.

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