biography
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Hoppe-Seyler, Ernst Felix (Immanuel)
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pronunciation:
[hopuh ziyler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–95)
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| biography:
| Physiological chemist, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. A pioneer in the application of chemical methods to understand physiological processes, he showed how haemoglobin in the red blood cells binds oxygen, which is subsequently delivered to the tissues. He also investigated the chemical composition and functions of chlorophyll, as well as the chemistry of putrefaction. He taught in Berlin, Tübingen, and Strasbourg, and founded in 1877 Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, the first biochemical journal. |
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