CHEMIST

James B. Sumner

1887 - 1955

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James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James B. Sumner has received more than 122,787 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). James B. Sumner is the 80th most popular chemist (up from 103rd in 2019), the 545th most popular biography from United States (up from 769th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Chemist.

James B. Sumner is most famous for his work on the Sumner line, which is a line drawn from the lower border of the sternum to the iliac crest.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James B. Sumner ranks 80 out of 602. Before him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, George de Hevesy, Gilbert N. Lewis, and Theodore William Richards. After him are Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, William Crookes, Henry Hallett Dale, Johann Rudolf Glauber, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, James B. Sumner ranks 22. Before him are Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, Chūichi Nagumo, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Saint-John Perse, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. After him are Felix Yusupov, Georg Trakl, Henry Moseley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ruth Benedict, and Leopold Ružička. Among people deceased in 1955, James B. Sumner ranks 17. Before him are Rodolfo Graziani, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Utrillo, Helmuth Weidling, and Charlie Parker. After him are Paul Claudel, George Enescu, Calouste Gulbenkian, Pak Hon-yong, Carmen Miranda, and Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James B. Sumner ranks 545 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeff Bridges (1949), Tobin Bell (1942), Janet Leigh (1927), Ernest Borgnine (1917), Theodore William Richards (1868), and Richard Bach (1936). After him are Joseph McCarthy (1908), Raquel Welch (1940), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Burt Young (1940), Bob Beamon (1946), and Harold Lloyd (1893).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, James B. Sumner ranks 10. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Melvin Calvin (1911), Irving Langmuir (1881), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), and Theodore William Richards (1868). After him are Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), Harold Urey (1893), and Vincent du Vigneaud (1901).

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