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James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1955) succeeded in crystallizing the enzyme urease and demonstrating its protein nature in 1926.

Short Biography:

For this work Sumner shared the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Northrop and Wendell Stanley.

Despite the loss of an arm as a youth, Sumner spent his entire career as an experimental chemist, at Cornell University, New York.

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James B. Sumner was an American biochemist. read more...

Tags: biochemist, career, chemist, protein

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