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Advertisement James Batcheller Sumner Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Multimedia 1 item James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1955), American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner. For his work in isolating enzymes, Sumner shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in chemistry with fellow American biochemists John H. Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley Sumner was born near Boston, Massachusetts. He initially studied electrical engineering at Harvard but soon switched to the study of chemistry. When he was a young boy, Sumner was involved in a hunting accident in which he lost his left forearm and elbowâan especially tragic loss, as Sumner was left-handed and was subsequently forced to train himself to be right-handed. Nevertheless, he continued to pursue his boyhood activities of tennis, canoeing, and shooting, and eventually developed ways of executing laboratory procedures one-handed. After his graduation from Harvard in 1910, Sumner briefly taught college chemistry in New Brunswick, Canada, after which he taught at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1912 Sumner returned to Harvard to pursue his Ph.D. degree. His doctoral dissertations, which he completed in 1914, concerned the liver's role in | |
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