The German biochemist Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the fixed relationship between oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid in muscle and for establishing the cyclic...

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...

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...

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...