William Howard Stein

William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work. Stein was also involved in the invention of the automatic amino acid analyzer, an advancement in chromatography that opened the door to modern methods of chromatography, such as liquid chromatography and gas chromatography.

25 June 1911

Born on the same birth day (25 June): Ariel Gore • Busy Philipps • Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton • Eric Carle • Francesco Araja • Ingeborg Bachmann • Jari Puikkonen • Madan Mohan (composer) • Nils Karlsson • Salihu Ibrahim • Sonia Sotomayor • Timur Bekmambetov • Zinaida Aksentyeva • Émile Francqui

Born in the same month (June 1911): Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Bernard Herrmann • Brooks Stevens • Czesław Miłosz • Edmundo Rivero • Ellen Corby • Erwin Wilhelm Müller • Gail Patrick • Irving Fein • Juan Manuel Fangio • Katherine DeMille • Luis Walter Alvarez • Maurice Copeland • Nagarjun • Portia White • Ralph Kirkpatrick • Vernon Kirby • Wilbert Awdry