1904–1971 American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner who crystallized the Tobacco mosaic virus.
Keywords: viruses; Tobacco mosaic virus; proteins
Stanley, Wendell Meredith
WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002918
| Further Reading | |
| Stanley WM (1934) Chemical studies on the virus of tobacco mosaic. Phytopathology 24: 1055–1085. | |
| Stanley WM (1935) Isolation of a crystalline protein possessing the properties of tobacco-mosaic virus. Science 81: 644–645. | |
| book Stanley WM and Valens E (1961) Viruses and the Nature of Life. New York: Dutton. | |
| book Stanley WM (1964) The isolation and properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus. Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942–1962, pp. 137–159. Amsterdam: Elsevier. | |
| book Cohen SS (1990) "Stanley WM". In: Holmes FL (ed) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 18, pp. 841–848. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Cohen SS (1999) "Stanley WM". In: Garraty JA and Carnes MC (eds) American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 553–555. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Costa AB (1993) "Wendell Stanley". In: James LK (ed.) Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901–1992, pp. 300–305. Washington DC: American Chemical Society. | |
| book Edsall JT (1971) W. M. Stanley. American Philosophical Society. Year Book 1971, pp. 184–190. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. | |
| Kay LE (1986) Stanley's crystallization of the TMV, 1930–1940. Isis 77: 450–472. | |
| book Magill FN (ed.) (1990) The Nobel Prize Winners Chemistry, vol. 2, pp. 499–507. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. | |
| book Wasson T (1987) Nobel Prize Winners, pp. 1001–1003. New York: HW Wilson. | |
