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Encyclopedia > James Sumner

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 - August 12, 1955) was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John H. Northrop.


Born in Canton, Mass to a family of Puritans, Sumner graduated from Harvard College in 1910.


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Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910.
Sumner's work was unsuccessful for many years and many of his colleagues were doubtful, believing that what he was trying to achieve was impossible, but in 1926 he discovered that even low molecular weight enzymes could be isolated and crystallized.
Sumner was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1948.
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