An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: October 12, 2025

NORTHROP, John Howard

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Crystalline pepsin.

J. gen. Physiol., 13, 739-80, 1930.

Crystallization of pepsin and its identity as a protein. 

In 1946 Northrop shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Wendell Meredith Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form." The other half was awarded to James Bathcellor Sumner "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized."



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)