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| Born | April 12, 1884 Hanover |
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| Died | October 6, 1951 Philadelphia |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | physics and biochemistry |
| Alma mater | Strasbourg 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 |
Otto Fritz Meyerhof (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951) was a German-born physician and biochemist.
Meyerhof was born in Hanover as the son of wealthy Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Berlin, where he later started studying medicine. He continued these studies in Strasbourg and Heidelberg, and 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 and two sons.
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, together with Archibald Vivian Hill, for his work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis. 1929 he became one of the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research until 1938. Fleeing the Nazi regime, he moved to Paris in 1938, then to the U.S. in 1940, where he became a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Meyerhof died in Philadelphia at the age of 67 of a heart attack.
References
- Kresge, Nicole; Simoni, Robert D & Hill, Robert L (2005), "Otto Fritz Meyerhof and the elucidation of the glycolytic pathway.", J. Biol. Chem. 280(4): e3, 2005 Jan 28, PMID:15665335, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15665335>
- Raju, T N (1998), "The Nobel chronicles. 1922: Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951).", Lancet 352(9137): 1396, 1998 Oct 24, PMID:9802314, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9802314>
- "OTTO Fritz Meyerhof.", Lancet 2(6687): 790-1, 1951, 1951 Oct 27, PMID:14874513, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14874513>
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