| Wendell M. Stanley  AKA Wendell Meredith Stanley
Born: 16-Aug-1904
Birthplace: Ridgeville, IN
Died: 15-Jun-1971
Location of death: Salamanca, Spain
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: First to crystallize a virus Wendell M. Stanley crystallized and described the molecular structure of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) in 1935, showing that it has properties of both living and non-living matter. TMV was the first virus to be so thoroughly analyzed, beginning a generation of scientists' work describing the molecular structures and propagation of other viruses. In 1943 Stanley isolated the influenza virus and developed an anti-flu vaccine. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946, sharing the honor with John H. Northrop, who was his colleague from the Rockefeller Institute, and with James B. Sumner of Cornell University. He retired in 1969 but remained active in research, and died at a scientific convention in Salamanca, Spain in 1971. Father: James G. Stanley (newspaper publisher)
Mother: Claire Plessinger Stanley
Wife: Marian Jay Staples (b. 1905, m. 15-Jun-1929, d. 1984, one son, three daughters)
Son: Wendell M. Stanley, Jr.
Daughter: Marjorie Jean
Daughter: Dorothy Claire
Daughter: Janet Elizabeth
University: Richmond High School, Richmond, IN (1922)
University: BS Organic Chemistry, Earlham College (1926)
University: MS Chemistry, University of Illinois (1927)
Scholar: PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois (1929)
Scholar: University of Munich (1929-31)
Scholar: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1932-48)
Professor: Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1948-58)
Professor: Virology, University of California at Berkeley (1958-69)
Administrator: Virus Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley (1948-69)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize 1937
Isaac Adler Prize 1938
John Scott Medal 1938
Nichols Medal 1946
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1946 (with James B. Sumner and John H. Northrop)
Willard Gibbs Medal 1947
Benjamin Franklin Medal 1948 (by the Franklin Institute)
Presidential Certificate of Merit 1948
Modern Medicine Award 1958
Order of the Rising Sun 1966 (Second Class)
American Cancer Society Director-at-Large
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
American Philosophical Society
French Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counsellors
National Research Council
US Health & Human Services Department Public Health Service; National Advisory Cancer Council
National Institutes of Health
World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Virus Diseases
Author of books:
Viruses and the Nature of Life (1961, non-fiction; with Evans G. Valens)
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