John Isaiah Northrop

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

John Isaiah Northrop
BornOctober 12, 1861
New York City, United States
DiedJune 27, 1891
New York City
OccupationZoologist
Spouse(s)Alice Belle Rich
Parent(s)John Isaiah Northrop and Mary Rosina Havemeyer
RelativesSee Havemeyer family
This article is about the American zoologist. For other uses, see John Northrop.

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]

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," 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.
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