John Howard Northrop
American biochemist (1891–1987)
Who was John Howard Northrop?
John Howard Northrop lived from July 5, 1891 to May 27, 1987. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley. Northrop was born in Yonkers, New York, to John Isaiah, a zoologist and instructor at Columbia University who is a member of the Havemeyer family, and Alice Rich Northrop, a teacher of botany at Hunter College. His father died in a lab explosion two weeks before John H. The son was educated at Yonkers High School and Columbia University, where he earned his BA in 1912 and PhD in chemistry in 1915.
Career and public life
Chemical Warfare Service on the production of acetone and ethanol through fermentation. In 1929, Northrop isolated and crystallized the gastric enzyme pepsin and determined that it was a protein.
Historical significance
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. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.