James B. Sumner
- January 10, 2024
- Chemist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | James B. Sumner |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Date Of Birth | Nov 19, 1887(1887-11-19) |
| Age | 137 |
| Date Of Death | August 12, 1955, Buffalo, NY |
| Birthplace | Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Massachusetts |
| Horoscope | Scorpio |
James B. Sumner Biography
| Name | James B. Sumner |
| Birthday | Nov 19 |
| Birth Year | 1887 |
| Place Of Birth | Massachusetts |
| Home Town | Massachusetts |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Spouse | Cid Ricketts Sumner |
James B. Sumner is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on November 19, 1887 in Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. An American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for discovering enzyme that could be crystallized. He was a member of both the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Like Irving Langmuir, he was among the first American chemists to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He had four sons with his wife Cid Ricketts, who he married in 1915.
James B. Sumner Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Chemist |
| House | Living in own house. |
James B. Sumner is one of the richest Chemist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James B. Sumner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He obtained a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1910.
His left arm had to be amputated below the elbow after he was accidentally shot by a friend while hunting as a teenager.
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Who is James B. Sumner Dating?
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What did James Sumner do?
James Sumner received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1946 (which he shared with John Northrop and Wendell Stanley), “for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized.” In asserting that enzymes were proteins, Sumner had to battle the considerable opposition of European chemists for many years, particularly that of …
Who isolated urease?
Sumner presents extensive experimental evidence that the crystalline material is the enzyme urease including the observation that the most active preparations of urease they had prepared had a specific activity of 30,000 units/g of enzyme whereas the dissolved crystals had a specific activity of 100,000.
Who crystallized urease?
Urease, the First Crystalline Enzyme and the Proof That Enzymes Are Proteins: the Work of James B. Sumner.
What is the name of the enzyme that JB Sumer first isolated and purified?
James Sumner studied the enzyme urease , which breaks down urine into ammonia and carbon dioxide. In 1926 he succeeded in isolating crystals with high activity from a kind of bean. Continued research indicated that the crystals were composed of a pure form of urease and that urease is a protein.
Who discovered the enzyme?
In 1833, French chemist Anselme Payen discovered the first enzyme, diastase [4].