Eduard buchner biography

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Famous scholars from Kiel:

The Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry is regarded as one of the fathers of modern biochemistry.

The man who discovered cell-free fermentation was active at Kiel between 1893 and 1896.

Little is known about Eduard Buchner's time at Kiel, as there are only few scientific publications dating from this era.

"He always went to Munich to stay with his brother, the physician Hans Buchner, during his holidays, where he worked on yeast juice", says Professor Roland Schauer, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Biochemistry. Shortly after Buchner had left Kiel, he made the chance discovery that led to the award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1907.

He was producing yeast cell-free extracts for his brother, who wanted to use these for immunological applications. For the purposes of preserving the protein extract from the yeast cells, he added sugar, a