Awards & Winners

John Howard Northrop

Date of Birth 05-July-1891
Place of Birth Yonkers
(Westchester County, United States of America, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Chemist, Scientist
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who won, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, 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.

Awards by John Howard Northrop

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Howard Northrop.

1946


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form)