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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
James Batcheller Sumner
John Howard Northrop
Wendell Meredith Stanley
1/2 of the prize
1/4 of the prize
1/4 of the prize
USA
USA
USA
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Princeton, NJ, USA
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Princeton, NJ, USA
b. 1887
d. 1955
b. 1891
d. 1987
b. 1904
d. 1971
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