James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1955) was an American biochemist who discovered that enzymes could be crystallized, the first proof that enzymes are proteins. He shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley for this work.
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James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887, August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist.
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Sumner was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948. In 1949, he was elected a Fell
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