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  Sumner, James Batcheller - MSN Encarta
When he was a young boy, Sumner was involved in a hunting accident in which he lost his left forearm and elbow—an especially tragic loss, as Sumner was left-handed and was subsequently forced to train himself to be right-handed.
Sumner's work in isolating an enzyme signaled a departure from the accepted theory that enzymes had low molecular weights and that proteins easily absorbed them.
His achievements accelerated the study of biocatalysis—a development that greatly advanced research into the fields of viruses and viral diseases, such as influenza and poliomyelitis, as well as laying the foundation for new research in nutrition.
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  James B. Sumner Summary
Sumner was the first to crystallize haemagglutinin concanavalin A, and he noted that this protein required the presence of a divalent metal to act.
Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.
Sumner's work was unsuccessful for many years and many of his colleagues were doubtful, believing that what he was trying to achieve was impossible, but in 1926 he discovered that even low molecular weight enzymes could be isolated and crystallized.
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James Batcheller Sumner (* 19.11 1887 in Canton, Massachusetts, Vereinigte Staaten Amerika, † 12.08 1955) war ein US-amerikanischer Chemiker.
Sumner erhielt 1946 den Nobelpreis für Chemie "für seine Entdeckung der Kristallisierbarkeit von Enzymen".
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Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.
Sumner's work was unsuccessful for many years and many of his colleagues were doubtful, believing that what he was trying to achieve was impossible, but in 1926 he discovered that even low molecular weight enzymes could be isolated and crystallized.
Sumner was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1948.
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 Sumner James Batcheller
Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C.
Sumner's work was unsuccessful for many years and many of his colleagues were doubtful, believing that what he was trying to achieve was impossible, but in 1926 he discovered that even low molecular weight enzymes could be isolated and crystallized.
Sumner was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1948.
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 James B. Sumner - Biography
James Batcheller Sumner was born at Canton, Mass., on Nov. 19, 1887, as the son of Charles Sumner and Elizabeth Rand Kelly.
The plan fell through, however, because Effront thought Sumner's idea of isolating urease was ridiculous.
Sumner was married three times: in 1915 he married Bertha Louise Ricketts whom he later divorced.
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 Sumner, James
Sumner's research work at Cornell first centered around analytical methods; despite hard work he was unable to obtain any interesting results.
The opponents gradually admitted Sumner's and Northrop's claims - Willstätter last of all - and the crowning recognition came in 1946 when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Sumner and Northrop.
Sumner was married three times: in 1915 he married Bertha Louise Ricketts whom he later divorced.
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 Sandwalk: Nobel Laureate: James Batcheller Sumner
In 1946, James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1955) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallizing the enzyme urease from jack bean [see: Dealing with Uric Acid and Monday's Molecule #48].
Sumner expressed the opinion that in reality this protein substance was the pure enzyme.
As is so often the case with important discoveries, this result will probably to a certain degree have "been in the air", in that at the time it had been assumed in many quarters that the enzymes were protein substances of quite a special nature.
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 Sumner James Batcheller - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Hendersonville, city, Sumner County, northern Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville; settled 1770s, incorporated 1968.
James Batcheller Sumner Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James Batcheller Sumner, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
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 Sumner - Welcome to Cranfill Sumner and Hartzog LLP
Sumner was referring to the seemingly endless attempts to harness the power of the state to further one's own ends at the expense of other people.
Charles Sumner, the son of a lawyer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 6th January, 1811.
James B. Sumner James Batcheller Sumner was born at Canton, Mass., on Nov. 19, 1887, as the son of Charles Sumner and Elizabeth Rand Kelly.
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 James (Batcheller) Sumner Biography (1887–1955) Online Encyclopedia Article About James (Batcheller) Sumner Biography ...
He was the first to crystallize an enzyme (1926), proving it to be a protein, for which he shared the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Biochemist James Sumner, who showed that the urease enzyme is a protein in 1926
Sumner, New Zealand, a seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
The Sumner method is a way of finding a ship's place at sea, and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) calculated a set of tables for its ready application.
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 The January 2000 Puzzler Answered
Although Sumner was able to return to Harvard shortly thereafter as a graduate student in biochemistry, he was actively discouraged from pursuing a career in chemistry by his research advisor, who told him candidly that there would be no opportunity in science for someone with his physical limitation.
Sumner chose the hydrolysis of urea (to ammonia and carbon dioxide) as the chemical reaction to study for two reasons.
Over a period of a dozen years Sumner perfected a method for the purification and crystallization of jack bean urease, and reported in 1926 that jack bean urease was a crystalline compound composed only of amino acids.
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 Sumner, James
Sumner wrote in his Nobel Lecture: "I decided in 1917 to attempt to isolate an enzyme….
James Batcheller Sumner was born in Canton, Massachusetts, in 1887.
(Sumner was left-handed.) With amazing courage and determination he taught himself to get along with one arm, and to use his right in activities for which he had previously used only his left.
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 James Batcheller Sumner Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James B. Sumner — Banquet Speech (submitted by Dan)
James Batcheller Sumner brief CV (submitted by Erica)
James Batcheller Sumner Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 James Batcheller Sumner
U.S. biochemist who was the first to crystallize an enzyme, an achievement that led to knowledge of the protein nature of enzymes and earned him, with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley, the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
After crystallizing the enzyme urease in 1926, Sumner went to Stockholm to study with Hans von Euler-Chelpin and Theodor (The) Svedberg.
He crystallized the enzyme catalase in 1937 and also contributed to the purification of several other enzymes.
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A fictional British spy in the novels of and the motion pictures based on these novels, famous for his suavity, ingenuity and ruthlessness.
The Directorate of Operations would like people to think it’s a great James Bond operation, but for years it essentially assigned officers undercover as diplomats to attend cocktail parties.
Local news for Sumner, MO continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
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Sumner was the first to crystallize an enzyme, an achievement that revealed the protein nature of enzymes.
English statesman who was one of the most influential advisers during the reigns of Charles II, James II, and William III.
His ability to shift allegiances was both the secret of his success and the cause of his unpopularity.
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 Botany online: MIRROR SITE: Chronology - Historical Developments - Biological Sciences
James Mark Baldwin elaborated the Baldwin effect, which is the belief that selection of genotypes will be channeled in the same direction as nonhereditary adaptive modifications.
James Batcheller Sumner first crystallized an enzyme, urease, and proved it to be a protein.
James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick accurately described the molecular structure of DNA.
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 Sumner Coat of Arms, Family Crest
The name Sumner was originally developed by the ancient Anglo-Saxons of England.
The surname Sumner is derived from the Anglo-French words somenour and sumenour, which in turn were derived from the Old French words somoneor and semoneor, which mean summoner.
in 1630, along with Elizabeth and Henry; Mary Sumner settled in Virginia in 1653; A. Sumner settled in San Francisco, Cal. in 1850.
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 Guide to the James B. Sumner Papers,1908-1958
Sumner won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for the crystallizations of the enzyme urease.
Sumner, J.S. Kirk, I. Fankuchen, S.F. Howell, A. Zeissig
Sumner, P.S. Krishnan, T.L. Sourkes, Y.C. Ting, H.O. Kunkel, W.L. Nelson, T.C. Chow, A.T. Bever, J.H. Northrop, N.K. Sarkar
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 Sumner Surname Research
The Sumner Mailing List is a mailing list for researchers of the surname SUMNER anywhere, anytime, any spelling variation.
Descendents of Jacob William Sumner and Margery Loveland -- contributed by Janet Johnson jannyj@proaxis.com.
James Alexander Sumner and Winnie Jane Thorpe of Georgia
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 James Batcheller Sumner Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James Batcheller Sumner Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James Batcheller Sumner brief CV (submitted by Erica)
James Batcheller Sumner Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 für, †, York, Urease, USA, Nobelpreis James Batcheller Sumner
August 1955 in Buffalo, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Chemiker.
Sumner erhielt 1946 den Nobelpreis für Chemie "für seine Entdeckung der Kristallisierbarkeit von Enzymen".
Concanavalin A und das Enzym Urease, die er aus der Schwertbohne isolierte.
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