Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1940
Number:9 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
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
 
Nominee 2:
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
 
Motivation:J. Northrop: Purification and crystallization of trypsin, pepsin, pepsinogen, chymo-pepsinogen. Also, studies of enzyme kinetics. J. Sumner: First crystallization of an enzyme (urease).
 
Nominator:
Name:George H Whipple
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1878
Year, Death:1976
Profession:Nobel Laureate med 1934
University:University of Rochester
City:Rochester
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)