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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈmaɪ̯ɐˌhoːf] ⓘ; 12 April 1884 – 6 October 1951) was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Apr 8, 2024 · Otto Fritz Meyerhof. Born: April 12, 1884, Hanover, Germany. Died: October 6, 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. (aged 67) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1922) Subjects Of Study: glycolysis.
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- Muscle Research at Kiel
- New Aspects of Muscle Research at Berlin
- Overthrow of The Lactic Acid Theory
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In 1912 Meyerhof became an assistant in the department of physiology in the University of Kiel and in 1918 assistant professor. In 1913 he delivered a lecture on the energetics of cell phenomena which became a classic, and he published (1916-1917) three papers on energy exchanges in the nitrifying bacteria, which papers had an important influence o...
Shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize, Meyerhof was offered a chair of biochemistry in an important American university. To retain him in Germany, a new department was created for him in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology at Berlin-Dahlem; to provide the accommodation, each of the heads of the five existing departments spontaneously offered...
In 1929 Meyerhof became head of the department of physiology in a new Institute for Medical Research in the University of Heidelberg. In 1929-1930 Einaar Lundsgaard of Copenhagen, in experiments begun in Copenhagen and completed in Meyerhof's new institute, obtained results damaging to the lactic acid theory. Lundsgaard showed that, in a muscle poi...
Meyerhof was appointed research professor of physiological chemistry at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. During 10 years in the United States he published 50 papers. In 1946 he partially separated thecalcium-activated enzyme adenosine-triphosphatase (ATPase), found in muscle, from myosin. In 1948 he demonstrated in muscle a...
There is a biography of Meyerhof in Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine, 1922-1941 (1965), which also includes his Nobel Lecture. For the biochemical background see G. H. Bell, J. N. Davidson, and H. Scarborough, Textbook of Physiology and Biochemistry (6th ed. 1965). For a full account of Meyerhof's work on muscle see the sections by Dorothy M....
Learn about the life and work of Otto Meyerhof, the German biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries on muscle metabolism and energy transformations. Find out how he studied glycolysis, lactic acid, phosphagen, and the role of enzymes in cellular processes.
OTTO MEYERHOF*. April 12,1884-October 6, ~gy. BY. DAVID NACHMANSOHN, SEVER0 OCHOA, AND FRITZ A. LIPMANN. w ITH THE DEATH of Otto Meyerhof on October 6, 1951, the world lost one of the most outstanding scientists of this cen- tury. The revolutionary character of his thinking, the originality of his approach, and the brilliance of his ...
Building on these initialobservations, the complete glycolytic pathway was elucidated by 1940 by thecombined efforts of several scientists including Otto Fritz Meyerhof(1884-1951). Meyerhof was born in Hanover, Germany and grew up in Berlin.
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof. The work of the 1922 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine laid the foundations for modern biochemistry. He worked at the Kiel Institute for Physiology from 1912 to 1924. Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884 - 1951) Otto Meyerhof was born in Hanover on 12 April 1884 and grew up in Berlin. He studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg ...
