 
Peter Moore |
Peter B. Moore, who has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Chemistry, has won worldwide acclaim for his studies of ribosome structure.
The Sterling Professorship is the University's highest faculty tribute.
In 1987, Moore and Yale scientist Donald Engelman helped determine the three-dimensional structure of the smaller of two subunits that make up the ribosome, the cellular structure responsible for synthesizing protein molecules in all organisms. Nearly two years ago, in another landmark achievement, Moore and another Yale scientist, Thomas Steitz, determined the atomic structure of the ribosome's large subunit. Their discoveries may lead to the development of more effective antibiotics.
In addition to ribosomes, Moore's research interests include RNA structure and function, as well as some of the scientific processes that have led to his discoveries, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, crystallography and X-ray and neutron scattering. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific articles and papers, which have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Molecular Biology, Science, Biochemistry and the Journal of Applied Crystallography, among others. He has also written numerous book reviews and book chapters.
Moore holds appointments in both the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He earned his B.S. summa cum laude from Yale in 1961 and went on to earn his doctorate at Harvard University. He pursued postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University in England and the University of Geneva in Switzerland before joining the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1969. He was named a full professor in 1979 and was appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry in 1997. He chaired the Department of Chemistry 1987-1990 and was director of graduate studies in the department 1983-1986.
Since 1972, Moore has been a guest biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Oxford in England 1979-1980.
At Yale, the scientist has served on numerous University committees, including the Science Facilities Planning Committee, the Task Force on the Biological Sciences, the Committee on the Restructuring of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the University Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Moore is a member of the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the National Academy and Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology and just completed a term as editor of the Biophysical Society's Biophysical Journal. He was chair of the BioSync Report Committee in 2002. He has served on advisory committees at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In recognition of his scientific contributions, Moore has received numerous awards and honors. These include the Yale Scientific and Engineering Association Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science, a Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health, Brandeis University's Rosenstiel Award and, most recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences' (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Moore has won fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Moore was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and is a fellow of the AAAS and the Biophysical Society. He is also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
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