NORTHROP, John Howard

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona June 4 1987, page 2 Private interment services were conducted this week for John Howard Northrop of Wickenburg, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Mr. Northrop, 95, had lived in Wickenburg for the past 16 years. He died May 27 at his home in Wickenburg. He was born July 5, 1891 in Yonkers, N.Y. Mr. Northrop was a member of the Rockefeller Institute in New York City and had worked as a research biophysicist at Donner laboratory, University of California. He was Professor Emeritus of Bacteriology and Biophysics at the University of California at Berkeley, and was listed in “Who’s Who in American”. He was preceded in death by his parents, John I. and Alice Bell Northrop. Survivors include a son, John Northrop of LaJolla, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Frederick Robbins of Cleveland, Ohio; five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.