John H. Northrop(1891–1987)

Chemistry

John Howard Northrop 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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Major Awards
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Publications
317
Citations
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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form

Independent
1946

Education

Columbia University

Doctoral Advisors

Jacques LoebThomas Hunt Morgan

Career Timeline

University of California, Berkeley?–present
The Rockefeller University?–present
Columbia University?–present

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