James B. Sumner
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James Batcheller Sumner 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 Mered
Sumner in 1946
Alexander Dounce
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Alexander Latham Dounce was an American professor of biochemistry. Among his fields of study were the isolation and purification of cellular organelles, protein crystallization, enzymes, DNA binding p
James B. Sumner
…1946) Scientific career Fields Biochemistry Workplaces Mount Allison University, Cornell University Doctoral advisor Otto Folin Doctoral students Alexander Dounce James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he…
The Dounce homogenizers, devices used for mechanical lysis of tissue or cells, were invented by and named after Alexander Dounce.