John Isaiah Northrop

John Isaiah Northrop.

John Isaiah Northrop, Ph.D. (12 October 1861 – 27 June 1891) was an American zoologist at Columbia University.

Biography

John I. Northrop was born in New York City. He was named after his father, John Isaiah Northrop, a pharmacist. His mother, Mary R. Havemeyer, was a sister of Frederic Christian Havemeyer, a graduate of Columbia College, after whom Havemeyer Hall is named. His father died when he was two years old. Northrop studied for some years at a private school in New Windsor, N.Y., then at the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, in which he prepared for the Columbia School of Mines. He graduated in 1884, with the degree of Engineer of Mines.^[1]

On June 28, 1889, he married Alice Belle Rich,^[2] at the time professor in Botany at the Hunter College. In 1891, almost exactly two years after his marriage, Dr. Northrop was killed in a laboratory explosion at the Columbia School of Mines. His only child, John Howard Northrop (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1946), was born nine days after his father's death.^[3]

Works

• (1887). Plant Notes from Temiscouata County, Canada.
• (1888). Histology of Hoya Carnosa.
• (1888). Fossil Leaves from Bridgeton, N.J.
• (1910). A Naturalist in the Bahamas.

References

1. Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1910). "Introduction" to A Naturalist in the Bahamas. The Columbia University Press, pp. xi–xv.
2. "Northrop, Alice Rich, 1864-1922. Papers, 1884-1916: A Finding Aid," Harvard University Library.
3. Robbins, Frederick C. (1991). "John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891-May 27, 1987)," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 135, No. 2, p. 314.

External links

• Works by or about John Isaiah Northrop at Internet Archive
• Works by John I. Northrop, at Hathi Trust
• Works by John I. Northrop, at JSTOR