John Howard Northrop
(1891-1987)
American biochemist
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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. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley.
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5 July 1891 Yonkers, New York, USA
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27 May 1987 (aged 95) Wickenburg, Arizona, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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