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John Howard Northrop

Chemistry

John Howard Northrop (1891-1987) was an American biochemist who shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley for the isolation, crystallization and study of enzymes, proteins and viruses. He later served as professor emeritus of bacteriology and medical physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Birth Year
1891 1
Death Date
1987-05-27 1
Death Year
1987 1
Death Place
Wickenburg, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Yonkers, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Biology 1
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1. John Howard Northrop (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1987-05-27T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1987-05-27T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Wickenburg, United States
    Q996556
  • P19 (place of birth): Yonkers, United States
    Q128114
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John Howard Northrop (Wikipedia)
  • Member Of: Columbia University, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; Rockefeller University
  • Works In: Biochemistry, Lead sentence
    John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891, May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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