John Isaiah Northrop Explained

John Isaiah Northrop
Birth Date:October 12, 1861
Birth Place:New York City, United States
Death Date:June 27, 1891
Death Place:New York City
Occupation:Zoologist
Spouse:Alice Belle Rich
Parents: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, New York, 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1910). "Introduction" to A Naturalist in the Bahamas. The Columbia University Press, pages xi–xv.
  2. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00068 "Northrop, Alice Rich, 1864-1922. Papers, 1884-1916: A Finding Aid,"
  3. Robbins, Frederick C. (1991). "John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891-May 27, 1987)," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 135, Number 2, page 314.
  4. Review of A Naturalist in the Bahamas by John I. Northrop, edited with an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Botanical Gazette. 1910. 50. 390–391.
  5. Web site: Bahama plants, collected and distributed by John I. and Alice R. Northrop: IndExs ExsiccataID=801993728 . IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 3 May 2024.