James B. Sumner papers

Collection — mu: 2891

Identifier: 29-2-671

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence concerning the organization of biochemical research in Brazil, notes for addresses and lectures, drafts and reprints of articles, graphs, photographs, and slides, the Scheele medal (1929), the gold medal and certificate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, printed Nobel proceedings, photographs of the ceremony, glass slides made in the course of his research, photographs of fellow scientists from Cornell and elsewhere, and his chemistry notebook from Harvard. Also, biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and related correspondence used by Professor Leonard A. Maynard in preparation of his memoir of Sumner, published in 1958 by the National Academy of Sciences.

Dates

1908-1958.

Creator

Sumner, James B. (James Batcheller), 1887-1955. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access to the Nobel Prize and other medals restricted to the permission of the University Archivist.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry at Cornell University.

Sumner won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for the crystallizations of the enzyme urease.

Extent

8 cubic feet. (8 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence concerning the organization of biochemical research in Brazil, notes for addresses and lectures, drafts and reprints of articles, graphs, photographs, and slides, the Scheele medal (1929), the gold medal and certificate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, printed Nobel proceedings, photographs of the ceremony, glass slides made in the course of his research, photographs of fellow scientists, and his chemistry notebook from Harvard. Also, biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and related correspondence used by Professor Leonard A. Maynard in preparation of his memoir of Sumner.