Most biochemists and structural biologists are probably familiar with the work of Christian B. Anfinsen on ribonuclease, but fewer may know about the wide range of his scientific and social activities. For those interested, this situation can now be easily remedied by a visit to the National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science web site (http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/), which presents an archival collection of many biographical summaries, research papers, photographs, and correspondences of Anfinsen.
The purpose of the Profiles in Science site is to provide an electronic museum for scientists and students of the history of science. The project was launched in 1998, with a collection describing the life and work of Oswald T. Avery. Since then, the curators have added profiles of Joshua Lederberg (whose shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 for his work on genetic recombination), Martin Rodbell (who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994 for his research on G-proteins and signal transduction), Julius Axelrod (who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters), and most recently, of Anfinsen (who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972).
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