biography
| name: |
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz
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pronunciation:
[miyerhohf]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1951)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Hanover, NC Germany. He studied at Heidelberg, and became professor at Kiel (1918–24), director of the physiology department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology (1924–9), and professor at Heidelberg (1930–8). He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the metabolism of muscles. Forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1938, he continued his work in France, and in 1940 fled to America, where he was professor at Pennsylvania University. |
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