| James B. Sumner  AKA James Batcheller Sumner
Born: 19-Nov-1887
Birthplace: Canton, MA
Died: 12-Aug-1955
Location of death: Buffalo, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: First to crystallize an enzyme Father: Charles Sumner
Mother: Elizabeth Rand Kelly
Wife: Bertha Louise Ricketts (m. 1915, div., six children)
Wife: Agnes Paulina Lundkvist (m. 1931)
Wife: Mary Morrison Beyer (m. 1943)
High School: Roxbury Latin School
University: Harvard University (1910)
Teacher: Mt. Allison College, Sackville, New Brunswick
Teacher: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1911-12)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1914)
Professor: Biochemistry, Cornell Medical School, Ithaca (1914-47)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1946 (with John H. Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1937
National Academy of Sciences 1948
Risk Factors: Amputee
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