CHEMIST

James B. Sumner

1887 - 1955

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James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James B. Sumner is the 86th most popular chemist (down from 80th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from United States (up from 545th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Chemist.

James B. Sumner is most famous for his work on the Sumner line, which is a line drawn from the lower border of the sternum to the iliac crest.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James B. Sumner ranks 86 out of 602. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, Frederick Sanger, Carl Bosch, Robert S. Mulliken, Friedrich Bergius, and Hans Fischer. After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, J. D. Bernal, Ernst Otto Fischer, Thomas Midgley Jr., Theodor Svedberg, and Valery Legasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, James B. Sumner ranks 22. Before him are Wilhelm Canaris, Jozef Tiso, Leopold Ružička, Juan Gris, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, and Leonard Bloomfield. After him are Henry Moseley, Saint-John Perse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nadia Boulanger, Georg Trakl, and Chūichi Nagumo. Among people deceased in 1955, James B. Sumner ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, José Ortega y Gasset, Arthur Honegger, and Sadako Sasaki. After him are Alberto Ascari, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Helmuth Weidling, António Egas Moniz, and Jim Corbett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James B. Sumner ranks 468 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Murray (1919), Oliver Hardy (1892), Sylvia Plath (1932), Melinda Gates (1964), Kurt Cobain (1967), and Ella Fitzgerald (1917). After him are Eminem (1972), Harry Nilsson (1941), Chris Cooper (1951), Norbert Wiener (1894), Jennifer Lopez (1969), and Oliver Stone (1946).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, James B. Sumner ranks 13. Before him are Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896). After him are Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Theodore William Richards (1868), William Howard Stein (1911), Stanford Moore (1913), and Vincent du Vigneaud (1901).

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