Karl Meyer (biochemist)

Karl Meyer (4 September 1899 in Kerpen – 18 May 1990) was a German biochemist.

He worked on connective tissue and determined the properties of hyaluronan in the 1930s.

Meyer studied medicine and received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 1924. He moved to Berlin and received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in 1927. In 1930 Herbert Evans invited Meyer to work as assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He then moved to New York and worked at the Columbia University doing research on hyaluronan.

The Society for Complex Carbohydrates (now Society for Glycobiology) presents the Karl Meyer Award since 1991.