JOHN NORTHROP, 95
BIOCHEMIST, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
Author: Associated Press
Date: Monday, July 20, 1987
Page: 27
Section: OBITUARY
WICKENBURG, Ariz. -- Biochemist John Howard Northrop, who shared a Nobel
Prize in 1946 for a discovery that changed the world of medicine, has died at
the age of 95.
He died May 27 at the desert home he had occupied since retiring from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1970. On July 5, his ashes were
scattered in the desert.
He and two others shared a Nobel Prize in 1946 for the first
crystallization of enzymes, proteins that are vital to life. They play a
significant role in digestion, breathing and other body processes, and the
discovery that they could be crystallized, removing impurities, helped reveal
how they work.
That paved the way for hundreds of applications, ranging from the
diagnosis of some types of cancer and heart disease and treatment of some
forms of leukemia to the manufacture of antibiotics, detergents and meat
tenderizers.
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