The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
Awarded on: 1946-11-14
"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
Affiliations:
- Cornell University – Ithaca, NY, USA
James Batcheller Sumner
Born: 1887-11-19 in Canton, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist
Biography
James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.