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John Howard Northrop

1891 - 1987

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John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Howard Northrop has received more than 95,389 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). John Howard Northrop is the 30th most popular chemist (up from 67th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from United States (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Chemist.

John Howard Northrop is most famous for inventing the flying wing.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Howard Northrop ranks 30 out of 602. Before him are Eduard Buchner, Albert Hofmann, Otto Wallach, Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, and Casimir Funk. After him are Ilya Prigogine, Walther Nernst, Robert Bunsen, Henrik Dam, Tu Youyou, and John Stith Pemberton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, John Howard Northrop ranks 12. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov, Walter Model, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, Edith Stein, and James Chadwick. After him are Pär Lagerkvist, Henry Miller, Otto Dix, Rudolf Carnap, Rafael Trujillo, and Genrikh Yagoda. Among people deceased in 1987, John Howard Northrop ranks 6. Before him are Andy Warhol, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, and Primo Levi. After him are Louis de Broglie, Gunnar Myrdal, Rita Hayworth, Marguerite Yourcenar, Fred Astaire, and Thomas Sankara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Howard Northrop ranks 257 out of 20,380. Before him are Emily Dickinson (1830), Robert Forster (1941), Joe Pesci (1943), Pearl S. Buck (1892), George Gershwin (1898), and Lee Van Cleef (1925). After him are Dianne Wiest (1946), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Pete Conrad (1930), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), and Gary Cooper (1901).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Howard Northrop ranks 3. Before him are Linus Pauling (1901), and Edwin McMillan (1907). After him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Melvin Calvin (1911), Irving Langmuir (1881), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Theodore William Richards (1868), James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927).

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