John Isaiah Northrop,

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(12 October 1861 – 27 June 1891) was an American zoologist at

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Biography

John I. Northrop was born in

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. He was named after his father, John Isaiah Northrop, a pharmacist. His mother, Mary R. Havemeyer, was a sister of Frederic Christian Havemeyer, a graduate of Columbia College, after whom

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is named. His father died when he was two years old. Northrop studied for some years at a private school in

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, then at the

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, in which he prepared for the

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. He graduated in 1884, with the degree of Engineer of Mines. On June 28, 1889, he married Alice Belle Rich, at the time professor in

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at the

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. In 1891, almost exactly two years after his marriage, Dr. Northrop was killed in a laboratory explosion at the Columbia School of Mines. His only child,

John Howard Northrop John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crys ...

(

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, 1946), was born nine days after his father's death.

Works

*(1887). ''Plant Notes from Temiscouata County, Canada''. *(1888). ''Histology of Hoya Carnosa''. *(1888). ''Fossil Leaves from Bridgeton, New Jersey''. *(1910)
''A Naturalist in the Bahamas''

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