Peter Moore (chemist)
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Peter B. Moore (born October 15, 1939) is Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He has dedicated his entire career to understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome.
Moore was born in
James D. Watson. Prior to attending Yale, Moore graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, where he was elected to the Cum Laude Society. As a postdoctoral fellow and a sabbatical visitor, he has done research at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (with A. Tissieres), at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England (with Hugh E. Huxley), and at the University of Oxford
, England.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society, and was elected to the
National Research Council
. He was chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Yale from 1987-1990. He is a past Editor of the Biophysical Journal.
Career summary
- 1961, B.S. Yale University
- 1966, Ph.D. Harvard University
- 1966-67, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute de Biologie Moleculaire at Geneva, Switzerland
- 1967-69, Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the MRC in Cambridge, UK
- 1969 Joined Yale Faculty
- 1979-80, Guggenheim Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
- 1992, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- 1997, Member of National Academy of Sciences
- 2001, Rosenstiel Award recipient
- 2002, AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize recipient
- 2003, American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
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