AKA James Batcheller Sumner

Born: 19-Nov-1887
Birthplace: Canton, MA
Died: 12-Aug-1955
Location of death: Buffalo, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: First to crystallize an enzyme

Father: Charles Sumner
Mother: Elizabeth Rand Kelly
Wife: Bertha Louise Ricketts (m. 1915, div., six children)
Wife: Agnes Paulina Lundkvist (m. 1931)
Wife: Mary Morrison Beyer (m. 1943)

    High School: Roxbury Latin School
    University: Harvard University (1910)
    Teacher: Mt. Allison College, Sackville, New Brunswick
    Teacher: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1911-12)
    University: PhD, Harvard University (1914)
    Professor: Biochemistry, Cornell Medical School, Ithaca (1914-47)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1946 (with John H. Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley)
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1937
    National Academy of Sciences 1948
    Risk Factors: Amputee

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