
American chemist (1887-1955)
James B. Sumner was an American chemist who lived from 1887 to 1955 and made important discoveries about how chemical reactions work in living organisms. His work helped scientists understand the nature of enzymes, which are proteins that speed up biological processes essential to all life.
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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. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.
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