John Isaiah Northrop

John Isaiah Northrop
John Isaiah Northrop
Born	October 12, 1861; New York City, United States
Died	June 27, 1891; New York City
Occupation	Zoologist
Spouse(s)	Alice Belle Rich
Parent(s)	John Isaiah Northrop and Mary Rosina Havemeyer
Relatives	See Havemeyer family

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.[4]

gollark: Probably most people aren't that.

gollark: I mean, honestly I doubt anyone here is much older than, what, university age.

gollark: Have "you" "returned" to "school" lately, "GIbSon"?

gollark: Fun fact: I am, allegedly, returning to school (somewhat) tomorrow.

gollark: ?charinfo communism (☭) iß bad

References

Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1910). "Introduction" to A Naturalist in the Bahamas. The Columbia University Press, pp. xi–xv.
"Northrop, Alice Rich, 1864-1922. Papers, 1884-1916: A Finding Aid," Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Harvard University Library.
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.
"Review of A Naturalist in the Bahamas by John I. Northrop, edited with an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn". Botanical Gazette. 50: 390–391.

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[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," Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine 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.

[4] "Review of A Naturalist in the Bahamas by John I. Northrop, edited with an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn". Botanical Gazette. 50: 390–391.