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John Howard Northrop

1891 - 1987

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John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Howard Northrop is the 63rd most popular chemist (down from 30th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from United States (down from 257th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Chemist.

John Howard Northrop is most famous for inventing the flying wing.

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Among chemists, John Howard Northrop ranks 63 out of 602. Before him are Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, and Norman Haworth. After him are Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, and Vladimir Prelog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, John Howard Northrop ranks 13. Before him are Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, and Pär Lagerkvist. After him are Walther Bothe, Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, and Rafael Trujillo. Among people deceased in 1987, John Howard Northrop ranks 8. Before him are Louis de Broglie, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, and Lee Byung-chul. After him are Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, Walter Houser Brattain, Gunnar Myrdal, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Howard Northrop ranks 345 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Sanders Peirce (1839), Mel Gibson (1956), Henry Clay (1777), John Cage (1912), Tom Petty (1950), and Zachary Taylor (1784). After him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Golden State Killer (1945), Jay Leno (1950), Allen Dulles (1893), Buzz Aldrin (1930), and Ernest Lawrence (1901).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Howard Northrop ranks 9. Before him are Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), George Washington Carver (1864), John Fenn (1917), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915). After him are Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), James B. Sumner (1887), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), and Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893).

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