The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
Awarded on: 1946-11-14
"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – Princeton, NJ, USA
John Howard Northrop
Born: 1891-07-05 in Yonkers, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist (1891–1987)
Biography
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.