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Name: John Howard Northrop
Birth Date: July 5, 1891
Death Date: May 27, 1987
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Wickenberg, Arizona, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemist

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Biography of John Howard Northrop
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John Howard Northrop, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, is best known for his work on the purification and crystallization of enzymes, which regulate important body functions like digestion and respiration. Northrop's studies on the chemical composition...
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The Nobel Prize-winning American biological chemist John Howard Northrop (1891-1987) established that enzymes are proteins and also showed that a bacterial virus is a nucleic acid-protein complex. On July 5, 1891, J. H. Northrop was born in Yonkers,...
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Born in Yonkers, New York, Northrop received his B.S. from Columbia University in 1912, his M.A. in 1913, and Ph.D. in 1915. His desire to achieve academically is not surprising since he came from a long lineage of illustrious academics, including...


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John Howard Northrop (July 5 1891 – May 27 1987) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley) for purifying and crystallizing certain...


 

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