John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop
Born(1891-07-05)July 5, 1891
DiedMay 27, 1987(1987-05-27) (aged 95)
Alma materColumbia University
Known forStudies of enzymes
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1939)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Columbia University
Rockefeller University

John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses.[1] Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley.[2]

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 – Preparing Pure Proteins". Retrieved December 14, 2008.
  2. ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1988".

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