Peter Moore (chemist) 2389439 197556420 2008-03-11T20:32:40Z Kbdankbot 6505923 Robot - move category per [[WP:CFD|CFD]] [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 March 4|2008 March 4]] [[Image:Ribosome 50s.png|thumb|right|Atomic Structure of the 50S Subunit]] '''Peter B. Moore''' (born [[October 15]], [[1939]]) is [[Sterling Professor]] 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 [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], in 1939. He received his B.S. degree in biophysics from Yale University in 1961, and his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1966, where he worked in the laboratory of [[James D. Watson]]. 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 H. 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 [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in 1997. He is a member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sigma Xi, [[American Chemical Society]], [[New York Academy of Sciences]], RNA Society and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He has served on numerous advisory committees for the [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]], [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]], and the [[United States National Research Council|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 [[University of Geneva]] in [[Geneva, Switzerland]] * 1967-69, Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the [[Medical Research Council (UK)|MRC]] in [[Cambridge]], UK * 1969 Joined [[Yale University|Yale]] Faculty * 1979-80, [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]], [[University of Oxford]], UK * 1992, [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] Fellow * 1997, Member of [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] * 2001, [[Rosenstiel Award]] recipient * 2002, [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] [[Newcomb Cleveland Prize]] recipient * 2003, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] fellow ==External links== *[http://proton.chem.yale.edu/ Moore Lab Homepage] {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Peter}} [[Category:American biologists]] [[Category:Members of the National Academy of Sciences]] [[Category:American chemists]] [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]]