James Batcheller Sumner
1887-1955
American Biochemist
On his way to winning the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, James B. Sumner overcame not only a physical handicap, but prevailing scientific opinion...
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Biochemist James B. Sumner's natural perseverance was strengthened by his efforts to overcome a handicap suffered in an accident as a youth. He set out to isolate an enzyme in 1917--a task believed to...
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James Sumner, son of a wealthy cotton manufacturer, learned early in life how to rise to a challenge. When he was 17, Sumner, accidentally shot by a hunting companion, had to have his left arm amputat...
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James Batcheller Sumner
James B. Sumner
James Batcheller Sumner