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Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr.(March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995)was an Americanbiochemist. He shared the 1972Nobel Prize in ChemistrywithStanford MooreandWilliam Howard Steinfor work onribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between theamino acidsequenceand the biologically active conformation (seeAnfinsen\'s dogma).Anfinsen was born inMonessen, Pennsylvania, into a family ofNorwegian Americanimmigrants. His parents were Sophie (née Rasmussen) and Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Sr., a mechanical engineer.The family moved to Philadelphia in the 1920s. He earned abachelor\'s degreefromSwarthmore Collegein 1937. While attendingSwarthmore Collegehe played varsity football and joined theDelta Upsilonfraternity. In 1939, he earned amaster\'s degreein organic chemistry from theUniversity of Pennsylvania. In 1939,The American-Scandinavian Foundationawarded Anfinsen a fellowship to develop new methods for analyzing the chemical structure of complex proteins, namelyenzymes, at theCarlsberg LaboratoryinCopenhagen, Denmark. In 1941, Anfinsen was offered a university fellowship for doctoral study in the Department of Biological Chemistry atHarvard Medical School. There, Anfinsen received hisPh.D.in biochemistry in 1943.In 1979, heconvertedto Judaism, by undergoing an Orthodox conversion and that same year he quit smoking. Although Anfinsen wrote in 1985 that his feelings on religion still reflect a fifty-year period of orthodoxagnosticism.Anfinsen had three children with his first wife, Florence Kenenger, to whom he was married from 1941 to 1978. He married Libby Shulman Ely, with whom he had 4 stepchildren, in 1979.His papers were donated to the National Library of Medicine by Libby Anfinsen between 1998 and 1999.In 1950, theNational Heart Institute, part of theNational Institutes of HealthinBethesda, Maryland, recruited Anfinsen as chief of its laboratory ofcell physiology. In 1954, aRockefeller Foundationfellowship enabled Anfinsen to return to the Carlsberg Laboratory for a year and aGuggenheim Foundationfellowship allowed him to study at theWeizmann Institute of ScienceinRehovot, Israelfrom 1958 to 1959.[8]He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1958.In 1962, Anfinsen returned to Harvard Medical School as a visiting professor and was invited to become chair of the department of chemistry. He was subsequently appointed chief of the laboratory of chemical biology at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (now the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases), where he remained until 1981. In 1981, Anfinsen became a founding member of theWorld Cultural Council.[10]From 1982 until his death in 1995, Anfinsen was professor of biophysical chemistry atJohns Hopkins.Anfinsen published more than 200 original articles, mostly in the area of the relationships between structure and function in proteins. He was also a pioneer of ideas in the area of nucleic acid compaction. In 1961, he showed thatribonucleasecould be refolded after denaturation while preserving enzyme activity, thereby suggesting that all the information required by protein to adopt its final conformation is encoded in itsamino-acid sequence. He belonged to theNational Academy of Sciences(USA), theRoyal Danish Academy of Sciences and Lettersand theAmerican Philosophical Society.