John Howard Northrop

Chemist, Academic

1891 – 1987

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Who was John Howard Northrop?

John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who won, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley.

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Born
Jul 5, 1891
Yonkers
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
Lived in
  • Arizona
  • Yonkers
Died
May 27, 1987
Wickenburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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