Otto F. Meyerhof
Otto F. Meyerof
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922
Nobel Co-recipient Archibald V. Hill
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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Biography
Books
History of Discovery
Honoring Otto Meyerhof
Patents: Meyerhof has not patented his discoveries
Publications
History of Discovery
Otto Fritz Meyerhof and the Elucidation of the Glycolytic Pathway by Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni and Robert L. Hill, Journal of Biological Chemistry.