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James Batcheller Sumner (Canton, Estados Unidos, 19 de noviembre de 1887 - Buffalo, 12 de agosto de 1955) fue un químico, bioquímico y profesor universitario estadounidense galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Química del año 1946.
James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.
James B. Sumner was a biochemist who isolated and crystallized urease, the first enzyme ever purified. He overcame many obstacles and skeptics to achieve his groundbreaking discovery and received the Nobel Prize in 1946.
Hace 1 día · James Batcheller Sumner (Canton, EUA 1887 - Buffalo 1955) fue un químico, bioquímico y profesor universitario estadounidense galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Química del año 1946.
James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist and corecipient, with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley, of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Sumner was the first to crystallize an enzyme, an achievement that revealed the protein nature of enzymes.
James Sumner discovered that enzymes can be crystallized and are proteins. He studied the enzyme urease, which breaks down urea, and isolated pure crystals from a kind of bean.
James Batcheller Sumner. Destacado bioquímico estadounidense. Doctor en Química, graduado en Harvard que descubrió la naturaleza proteica de las enzimas y logró aislar las enzimas Ureasa y Catalasa.
