John Howard Northrop (1891-1987)

Awarded the Prize “for his preparation of enzymes virus proteins in a pure form.”

American biochemist. Northrop was born on July 5, 1891 at Yonkers, New York. He graduated Bachelor of Science in 1912, Master of Arts in 1913 received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1915, all at Columbia University. He was appointed W.B.Cutting Travelling Fellow spent the next year in Jacques Loeb’s laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute. The following year, he was appointed to the staff of the Institute. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Bacteriology, University of California, later, Professor of Biophysics. Northrop died on May 27, 1987 at Wickenberg, Arizona.