Peter Moore is interviewed by Mila Pollock Preserved in 2020-2022 through a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant. This interview video is available for use under a CC0 1.0 Universal license.

Peter Moore currently is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He earned his B.S. in biophysics from Yale University in 1961 and Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1966. He did his post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire, University of Geneva and at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.

In 1969 he joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1979 and was appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry in 1997. His research focus on a ribosome, their structure, mechanism and function.

Peter Moore is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received a a Merit Award from National Institutes of Health, Brandeis University's Rosenstiel Award and the Yale Scientific and Engineering Association Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science.