John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop was a chemist, biochemist, and scientist from the United States. He was born on July 5, 1891, in Yonkers, New York and died on May 27, 1987, in Wickenburg, Arizona. Northrop was educated at Columbia University and had Jacques Loeb as his doctoral advisor.

Northrop's main academic discipline was biochemistry, and he was known for his studies of enzymes. He received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1939 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.