In the course of a long and distinguished career both in Germany and the United States, Otto Meyerhof helped lay the foundations for modern bioenergetics, the application of the principles of thermodynamics (the science of physics in relation to heat...

Otto Meyerhof helped lay the foundations for modern bioenergetics, the application of the principles of thermodynamics (the science of physics in relation to heat and mechanical action) to the analysis of chemical processes going on within the living...

The son of a merchant, Meyerhof received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1909. Although he was originally attracted to psychology, a meeting with Otto Warburg aroused his interest in cellular physiology and, in 1913, when he...

(born April 12, 1884, Hanover, Ger.—died Oct. 6, 1951, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) German biochemist and corecipient, with Archibald V. Hill, of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research on the chemical reactions of metabolism in...

(born April 12, 1884, Hanover, Ger.—died Oct. 6, 1951, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) German biochemist. His work on glycolysis remains a basic contribution to the understanding of muscle action, despite the need for later revision. He shared with...

Otto Fritz Meyerhof (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951), German-born physician and biochemist. Meyerhof was born in Hannover as the son of wealthy Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Berlin, where he later started studying medicine....

ON THE FRITZ CHINESE LETTER BY SVETISLAV BASARA, TRANSLATED BY ANA LUCIC NORMAL, IL: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS. 180 PAGES. $13. You wake up one morning: You don't know your name, where you live, or whether you're alive or dead. All things considered, this...

Dear Fritz, My husband and I are having a dispute, and I hope you can help us resolve it before we end up in divorce court (ha, ha-joking!). Should "t. p." be hung with the paper coming over the top of the roll,...