John Howard Northrop:
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
July 5, 1891 in Yonkers, New York
Death:
May 27, 1987 in Wickenburg, Arizona
Claim to Fame:
Northrop was an American biochemist who shares half the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Wendell Stanley for their technique of purifying and crystallizing enzymes and virus proteins. The other half of the Prize went to James Sumner for the discovery that it was possible to crystallize enzymes. This is important because once a substance is crystallized, its molecular structure can be determined.
