The Nobel Prize-winning American biological chemist John Howard Northrop (1891-1987) established that enzymes are proteins and also showed that a bacterial virus is a nucleic acid-protein complex.On J...
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Born in Yonkers, New York, Northrop received his B.S. from Columbia University in 1912, his M.A. in 1913, and Ph.D. in 1915. His desire to achieve academically is not surprising since he came from a l...
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John Howard Northrop, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, is best known for his work on the purification and crystallization of enzymes, which regulate important body functions like digestion and respirati...
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Born in Yonkers, New York, Northrop received his B.S. from Columbia University in 1912, his M.A. in 1913, and Ph.D. in 1915. His desire to achieve academically is not surprising since he came from a l...
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