AKA John Howard Northrop

Born: 5-Jul-1891
Birthplace: Yonkers, NY
Died: 27-May-1987
Location of death: Wickenberg, AZ
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Isolated the first bacteriophage

Military service: US Army (WWI, 1917-18, Captain, Chemical Warfare Service)

Father: John I. Northrop (instructor at Columbia University)
Mother: Alice R. Northrop (teacher of botany at Hunter College)
Wife: Louise Walker (m. 1917, one son, one daughter)
Son: John (oceanographer)
Daughter: Alice (married Nobel laureate Frederick C. Robbins)

    University: BS, Columbia University (1912)
    University: MA, Columbia University (1913)
    University: PhD Chemistry, Columbia University (1915)
    Professor: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, NYC (1916-61)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1946 (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley)

Author of books:
Crystalline Enzymes (1939, chemistry)

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