Christian B. Anfinsen is remembered in science for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Christian B. Anfinsen as American biochemist (1916–1995).
Christian B. Anfinsen was born in 1916.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
Death came in 1995, at 79. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
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