Eduard Buchner Quotes


The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase.


Citations

Buchner, Eduard. "Alcoholic Fermentation Without Yeast Cells." A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900, edited by Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein, McGraw-Hill, 1952, p. 506.

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Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner
  • Born: May 20, 1860
  • Died: August 13, 1917
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Scientist

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.