| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 5 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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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 | |
| Motivation: | Purification and crystallization of trypsin, pepsin, pepsinogen, chymo-pepsinogen. Also, studies of enzyme kinetics. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Hans Zinsser |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1940 |
| Profession: | prof bacteriology |
| University: | Harvard Medical School |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |