{{short description|American biochemist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Thressa Stadtman | image = stadtmant.jpg | image_size = | alt = ALT IMAGE TEXT | caption = Thressa Stadtman in her lab, ca. 1970s | birth_name = Thressa Campbell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|2|12}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae- Thressa Campbell Stadtman|url=https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/Thressa_cv.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041030072712/http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/Thressa_cv.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2004|accessdate=14 September 2015}}</ref> | birth_place = Sterling, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|11|1920|2|12}} | death_place = Derwood, Maryland | residence = | fields = Biochemistry | workplaces = National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | alma_mater = {{plainlist | * Cornell University * University of California, Berkeley }} | thesis_title = Studies on the methane-producing bacteria. | thesis_year = 1949 | thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17994497 | doctoral_advisor = Horace Albert Barker | known_for = {{plainlist | * Discovery of selenoproteins * Member of the National Academy of Sciences }} |spouse = Earl Reece Stadtman }} '''Thressa Campbell Stadtman''' (February 12, 1920 – December 11, 2016) was an American biochemist, notable for her discovery of selenocysteine,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stadtman |first=Thressa C.|date=March 8, 1974 |title=Selenium Biochemistry |journal=Science |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |volume=183 |issue=4128 |pages=916–922 |doi=10.1126/science.183.4128.915 |pmid=4605100|bibcode=1974Sci...183..915S}}</ref> and her research on selenoproteins and bioenergetics. In addition she made significant advances in amino acid metabolism, enzymes dependent on vitamin B12, and the biochemistry of microbes.<ref> {{cite book|last=Bowman|first=John|date=1995|title=The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography|edition=first|isbn=978-0521402583|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgediction00bowm}}</ref>
==Life== thumb|Drs Thressa and Earl Stadtman In 1920, she was born in Sterling, New York. In 1940, she graduated from Cornell University, with a B.S. in Microbiology, and in 1942, with a M.S. in Microbiology and Nutrition. In 1949, she graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in Microbial Biochemistry. Her thesis was titled "Studies on Methane Fermentations", and subsequently worked as a postdoc for Christian B. Anfinsen at Harvard Medical School.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Thressa C. Stadtman (1920 – 2016) |url=https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/030117/thressa-c-stadtman-1920-2016 |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.asbmb.org |language=en}}</ref>
She was married to Earl Reece Stadtman whom she met when they were both graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="WP">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/12/AR2008011202696.html |newspaper=Washington Post|title=Earl R. Stadtman, 88; Revered Biochemist, Mentor at NIH|author= Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb|date= January 13, 2008 }}</ref> They were both hired by what was then the National Heart Institute in 1950 becoming the first husband-and-wife team at the National Institutes of Health.<ref name="WP"/> They both oversaw their own biochemistry labs and collaborated closely. In 2005, they were both honored by the NIH with an exhibit titled "The Stadtman Way: A Tale of Two Biochemists at NIH." <ref name="WAY">{{cite web|url=http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041016205024/http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 16, 2004|title=The Stadtman Way: A Tale of Two Biochemists at NIH|website=history.nih.gov}}</ref> She retired from the NIH in 2009.<ref name=":0" />
Over a 60-year period, starting in 1943, she published 212 peer-reviewed papers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/Thressa_cv.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041030072712/http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/stadtman/Thressa_cv.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 30, 2004 |title=CV |website=history.nih.gov}}</ref>
Stadtman was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rossiter|first1=Margaret W. |year=2012 |title=Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972 |volume=3 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |publication-date= February 21, 2012|page=257 |isbn=978-1421403632 }}</ref>
Stadtman died in December 2016 at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50170.html|title=Thressa Stadtman|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150406082616/http://history.nih.gov/archives/downloads/thressacstadtman.pdf Interview] of Thressa C. Stadtman by Buhm Soon Park, January 2001 * [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/stadtman-thressa.pdf Vadim N. Gladyshev, P. Boon Chock, and Rodney L. Levine, "Thressa C. Stadtman", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)]
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