Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year: | 1939 |
Number: | 23 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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Name: | John H Northrop |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1891 |
Year, Death: | 1987 |
Profession: | dept head |
University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
City: | New York |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 |
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Nominee 2:
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Name: | James B Sumner |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1887 |
Year, Death: | 1955 |
Profession: | prof biochemistry |
University: | Cornell University |
City: | Ithaca |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 |
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Motivation: | Northrop: The purification, crystallization and method of action of pepsin and
trypsin; purification of their pro-enzymes.
Sumner: The purification and crystallization of the enzyme urease and the study of its action.
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Nominator:
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Name: | Thomas M Rivers |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | dept head |
University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
City: | New York |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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