James B. Sumner

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop.

Awards

In 1937, he was given a Guggenheim Fellowship and he spent five months in Sweden working with Professor Theodor Svedberg. Also that year, John Howard Northrop of the Rockefeller Institute obtained crystalline pepsin making it clear that Sumner had devised a general crystallization method for enzymes and he was awarded the Scheel Medal in Stockholm.

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1937 - Guggenheim Fellowship - Sweden - Theodor Svedberg - Rockefeller Institute - Pepsin - Scheel Medal - Stockholm

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Both Sumner and Northrop shared the Nobel Prize in 1946 for crystallization of enzymes. Sumner was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1948.

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Nobel Prize - 1946 - National Academy of Science - 1948

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Sumner died aged 67 of cancer on August 12 1955.

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August 12 - 1955

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