Otto Meyerhof
Otto Meyerhof · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for discovering the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism in muscle.
1884, Hannover, Germany — 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Germany (Kiel · Heidelberg) · France (Paris) · United States (Philadelphia)
Otto Meyerhof is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for discovering the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism in muscle.
Born into a Jewish family in Hannover, Meyerhof studied the chemistry of muscle. He showed the quantitative relationship between oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid in working muscle, illuminating how cells convert energy — for which he shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. As a Jew he fled Nazi Germany, escaping via France to the United States in 1940, where he continued his research in Philadelphia.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for discovering the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism in muscle.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
