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Wendell Meredith Stanley
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Wendell Meredith Stanley

1904 – 1971 · aged 67

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

Born
16 Aug 1904 · Ridgeville
Died
15 Jun 1971 · Salamanca

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 77 years
  1. 16 Aug 1904BornBorn in Ridgeville
  2. 1938AwardJohn Scott Award
  3. 1945AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
  4. 1946AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  5. 1946AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  6. 1947AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  7. 1947AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  8. 1948AwardFranklin Medal
  9. 1962AwardGolden Plate Award
  10. 1966AwardAMA Scientific Achievement Award
  11. 15 Jun 1971DiedDied in Salamanca

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1904 – 1971).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing

Biography

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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