Died 1987-05-27.
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John Howard Northrop
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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Born 5 July 1891 · Died 27 May 1987 · Q106399
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1987· 2 entries
Northrop committed suicide in Wickenburg, Arizona in 1987.
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1949· 1 entry
Joined the University of California, Berkeley as Professor of Bacteriology, and later, he was appointed Professor of Biophysics
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1946· 3 entries
The Preparation of Pure Enzymes and Virus Proteins
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946).
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1939· 1 entry
Won Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
Isolated and crystallized the first bacteriophage (a small virus that attacks bacteria), and determined that it was a nucleoprotein
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1929· 1 entry
Northrop isolated and crystallized the gastric enzyme pepsin and determined that it was a protein
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1917· 1 entry
Northrop married Louise Walker (1891–1975), with whom he had two children: John, an oceanographer, and Alice, who married Nobel laureate Frederick C
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-07-05.
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