What is John Howard Northrop?
{{Nobelprize|Chemistry}} [[File:John Howard Northrop.jpg|thumb|200px|Northrop (1946)]] '''John Howard Northrop''' (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an [[United States|American]] [[biochemist]]. He shared the [[1946]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] with [[James Batcheller Sumner]] and [[Wendell Meredith Stanley]]. Northrop was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in [[1949]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter N|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterN.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=15 April 2011}}</ref> He was employed by the [[Rockefeller University|Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research]] in [[New York City]] from [[1916]] until his retirement in [[1961]]. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Bacteriology and later, Professor of Biophysics at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1946/northrop/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Chemistry}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Northrop, John Howard}} [[Category:1891 births]] [[Category:1987 deaths]] [[Category:American biochemists]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners]] [[Category:Rockefeller University faculty]] [[Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty]]