James Batcheller Sumner:
James Batcheller Sumner was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
November 19, 1887 in Canton, Massachusetts
Death:
August 12, 1955 in Buffalo, New York
Claim to Fame:
Sumner was an American chemist who was awarded half the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery that enzymes could be crystallized. He discovered enzymes could be isolated in a pure form by isolating urease. He also showed urease was a protein and proved enzymes were proteins.
