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). Fields: Biochemistry Education: Swarthmore College BA University of Pennsylvania MS Harvard University PhD