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Peter Moore

Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Member of Yale faculty since 1969.
No longer accepting new students.

Contact Info

peter.moore@yale.edu

SCL 117

Research Interests

Biophysical Chemistry
Macromolecular Structure and Function
RNA

Education

B.S. Yale University, 1961
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1966
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 1966-67
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK), 1967-69

Honors

  • NIH Merit Award, 1986-95
  • Fellow of AAAS, 1992
  • National Academy of Sciences, 1997
  • Rosenstiel Award, 2001
  • AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 2002
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003

Recent Publications

Moore, P. B., and Steitz, T. A. (2011) The Roles of RNA in the Synthesis of Proteins, In RNA Worlds (Atkins, J. F., Gesteland, R. F., and Cech, T. R., Eds.), pp 123-139, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

Moore, P. B. (2012) Visualizing the Invisible.  Imaging Techniques for the Structural Biologist, Oxford University Press, New York.

Moore, P. B. (2012) How should we think about the ribosome? Annu. Rev. Biophys. 41, 1-19.

Moore, P. B. (2012) Neutrons, magnets and photons: a career in structural biology, J. Biol. Chem. 287, 805-818.

Moore, P. B. (2012) A short, informal history of the biological sciences at Yale University, Yale J. Biol. Med. 85, 551-558.

Moore, P.B. (2020) An Introduction to Chemistry, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne.