Northrop
[nawr-thruh p] /ˈnɔr θrəp/
noun
1.
John Howard, 1891–1987, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1946.
Northrop Nor·throp (nôr’thrəp), John Howard. 1891-1987.
American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins.
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