Otto F. Meyerhof

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922
Nobel Co-recipient Archibald V. Hill

Physician. Energy conversions in muscle. Fine experimenter, Physiological Chemist.

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Publications

Title:

Metabolism and Function. A collection of papers dedicated to Otto Meyerhof on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Edition:

Hardcover - 1950

Editor:

David Nachmansohn M.D.

Publisher:

Elservier Publishing Company

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Name: Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Birth: 12 April 1884, Hanover, Germany
Death 6 October 1951, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle"
Field: Metabolism, muscle physiology
Otto Meyerhof received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1923.
Prize share: 1/2
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