| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 9 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | John H Northrop |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1891 |
| Year, Death: | 1987 |
| Profession: | dept head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | James B Sumner |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1887 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | prof biochemistry |
| University: | Cornell University |
| City: | Ithaca |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 |
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| Motivation: | J. Northrop: Purification and crystallization of trypsin, pepsin, pepsinogen, chymo-pepsinogen. Also, studies of enzyme kinetics.
J. Sumner: First crystallization of an enzyme (urease).
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Nominator:
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| Name: | George H Whipple |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1934 |
| University: | University of Rochester |
| City: | Rochester |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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