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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 Meyerhof (born April 12, 1884, Hanover, Germany—died October 6, 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) was a German biochemist and corecipient, with Archibald V. Hill, of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research on the chemical reactions of metabolism in muscle.
For his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle, Meyerhof was awarded, together with the English physiologist A.V. Hill, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1922.
May 21, 2018 · The German biochemist Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the fixed relationship between oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid in muscle and for establishing the cyclic character of energy transformations in the living cell. Otto Meyerhof son of Felix Meyerhof, a ...
Meyerhof demonstrated that muscle glycogen is the precursor of the lactic acid formed in the absence of oxygen. He further showed that, in the presence of oxygen, some of the lactic acid formed during the anaerobic contraction was oxidized, but that not all the lactic acid underwent this fate.
Ludolf von Krehl’s search for colleagues who would integrate the then quite separate disciplines of the natural sciences under the umbrella of biomedical research led him to Otto Meyerhof. Meyerhof’s study of intermediate metabolism involved a mix of physiology, pharmacology, physics and pathology.
Otto Meyerhof. (1884 - 1951) Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born in Hannover as the son of wealthy Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Berlin, where he later started studying medicine.
