About
An American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for his studies on enzymes, proteins, and viruses. He was the first scientist to discover that the gastric enzyme pepsin was a protein.
Before Fame
He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Columbia University in 1915, the same school where his father died in a lab explosion.
Trivia
He became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949.
Family Life
He had two children with his wife Louise Walker after marrying 1917.
Associated With
Like Irving Langmuir, he is among the first Americans to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
