Christian B. Anfinsen

Christian B. Anfinsen
Christian B. Anfinsen
	Anfinsen in 1969
Born	Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr.; March 26, 1916; Monessen, Pennsylvania, US
Died	May 14, 1995 (aged 79); Randallstown, Maryland, US
Alma mater	Swarthmore College (BA); University of Pennsylvania (MS); Harvard University (PhD);
Known for	Ribonuclease, Anfinsen's dogma
Spouses	Florence Kenenger (m. 1941; div. 1978); Libby Shulman Ely (m. 1979);
Children	3 with Kenenger, 4 stepchildren with Ely
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972)
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Thesis	Quantitative histochemical studies of the retina (1943)
Doctoral advisor	Albert Baird Hastings

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995) was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma).

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