James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1955)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized.”

American biochemist. Sumner was born on November 19, 1887 in Canton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1906 obtained his Ph.D. degree in June, 1914 at Harvard Medical School. He was invited to be Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Cornell Medical School, a post which he held until 1929, when he was made full Professor of Biochemistry. Sumner died on August 12, 1955 at Buffalo, New York.