Eduard Buchner

Chemist
BIRTHDAY
May 20,1860
Birthplace
Germany
Age
Aug 13,1917,age 57
Birth Sign
Taurus
BIRTHDAY
May 20,1860 (age Aug 13,1917,age 57)
Birthplace
Germany

About

A German chemist who is best known for his work with cell-free sugar fermentation. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his important work in 1907.

Before Fame

He received a doctorate from the University of Munich in 1888.

Trivia

He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907 for proving that living yeast cells were not needed for sugar fermentation.

Family Life

He married Lotte Stahl in 1900.

Associated With

He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry four years before Madame Curie did.