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James Batcheller Sumner
Full Name of the recipient | James Batcheller Sumner |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1946 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | John Howard Northrop (25.0%) Wendell Meredith Stanley (25.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Canton, MA, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 19 November 1887 |
Age at the time of Award | 58 years |
Place of Death | Buffalo, NY, United States USA |
Date of Death | 12 August 1955 |