Otto Fritz Meyerhof
| Otto Fritz Meyerhof | |
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| Born |
12 April 1884 Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | October 6, 1951 (aged 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Physics and Biochemistry |
| Alma mater |
University of Strasbourg University of Heidelberg |
| Known for | Relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1922 Fellow of the Royal Society |
Otto Fritz Meyerhof ForMemRS (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951) was a German physician and biochemist.
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born in Hannover, at Theaterplatz 16A, the son of wealthy Jewish parents. In 1888, his family moved to Berlin, where Otto spent most of his childhood, and where he started his study of medicine. He continued these studies in Strasbourg and Heidelberg, from which he graduated in 1909, with a work titled "Contributions to the Psychological Theory of Mental Illness". In Heidelberg, he met Hedwig Schallenberg, who later became his wife. They had a daughter, Bettina Meyerhof and two sons, Gottfried (who referred to himself as Geoffrey) and Walter.
In 1912, he moved to the University of Kiel, where he became professor in 1918. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, with Archibald Vivian Hill, for his work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis. In 1929 he became one of the directors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, a position he held until 1938. Fleeing the Nazi regime, he moved to Paris in 1938. He then moved to the United States in 1940, where he became a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In recognition of his contributions to the study of glycolysis, the common series of reactions for the pathway in Eukaryotes is known as the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas Pathway.
Meyerhof died in Philadelphia at the age of 67.
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