Peter Moore (chemist)
Peter Bartlett Moore ( * October 15, 1939 in Boston ) is an American chemist and Sterling Professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Life
Moore earned a bachelor's degree in 1961 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1966 and a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the Institute de Biologie Moléculaire the University of Geneva. From 1967 to 1969 he worked in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge.
1969 Moore received a PhD Student ( Assistant Professor ) at Yale University. A Guggenheim Fellowship took him 1979/1980 at the University of Oxford. 1979 Moore became a full professor at Yale, he led from 1987 to 1990 the Department of Chemistry. He was appointed Sterling Professor in 2002; the Sterling Professorship is the highest academic distinction from Yale University.
Work
Moore made fundamental contributions to the study of RNA. He was able to show that the peptide bond formation is catalyzed by ribosomal RNA within the ribosome. Other interactions between the RNA and other cellular components are covered by his continued (as of 2010 ) studies. In particular, by means of crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Moore relationships between structure and function of RNA.
Among other things, for the services along with Thomas A. Steitz Moore scientific achievements in 2009 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.