John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop was an American chemist, biochemist, and scientist who worked as a university teacher. He was educated at Columbia University and served on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, and The Rockefeller University. His doctoral advisors were Jacques Loeb and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Northrop’s field of work was biochemistry, and he authored works including *Crystalline enzymes* and *The organic phosphoric acid of starch*.

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, and the National Medal of Science. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Northrop was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in Yonkers in 1891, he died by suicide in Wickenburg in 1987.