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Cellular respiration — Warburg

~1928 AD · Transmission: Global
BiologyDiscoveryGermanic

Otto Warburg identifies the respiratory enzyme (Atmungsferment) that catalyzes cellular oxidation using oxygen, and develops tissue manometry as a technique for measuring oxygen consumption in living cells. His Nobel (1931) was for the discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme. Hans Krebs worked directly in his laboratory (1926-1930) and applied those techniques to discover the citric acid cycle.

InstitutionKaiser Wilhelm Institut für Biologie, Berlin
Historical regionGermany — Berlin
Secondary sourceKrebs, H.A. — Nobel Lecture 1953: The Citric Acid Cycle (explicitly acknowledges debt to Warburg)
Original languageGerman / English
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