History Flashcards
(26 cards)
Chemotherapy
Philuppus Aureolus Paracelsus
1493-1541
Medical Chemistry
Jan Baptist Van Helmont
1577-1644
Foundation of descriptive biochemistry
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
1743-1794
Father of Modern Biochemistry
Process of oxidation; nature of animal respiration
Antoine Lavoiser
1743-1794
Structural biochemistry; sapanification (fats)
Michel Chevreul
1786-1889
Structural Biochemistry: Carbohydrates, Amino Acids, Fats
Herman Emil Fischer
1853-1919
Nucleic Acid
Friedrich Miescher
1844-1895
Glycogen; relation of blood sugar in health; digestive properties of pancreatic juice
Claude Bernard
1813-1878
Physical Biochemistry; pH
Soren Sorensen
1868-1939
Development of Ultracentrifuge
Theodore Svedberg
1884-1971
Electrophoresis; Chromatography
Arne W.K. Tiselius
1902-1971
Fermentation; Pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
1822-1895
Enzyme Kinetics
Leonor Michaelis (1875-1949) Maud Menten (1879-1960)
Glycolysis; EMB Pathway
Gustav Embden (1874-1933) Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951)
ATP
Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986) Kurt Henseleit (1903-1973)
Kreb’s Cycle or Citric Acid Cycle
Albert Szent Gyorgyl (1899-1986)
Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981)
Amino acid sequencing; insulin
Frederick Sanger
1918-2013
Structure of Proteins
Linus Carl Pauling and Robert Carey
1901-1994
DNA Molecule Structure
James Watson (1928-present) Francis Harry Crick (1916-2004) Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002)
First to synthesize DNA using enzymes
Arthur Kornberg
1918-2007
Amino acids; tRNA
Robert Holley
1922-1993
Basic sequence in mRNA
Marshall Nirenberg
1927-2010
Father of Modern Enzymology
James B. Sumner
1887-1955
Gene regulation
Francois Jacob (1920-2013) Jacques Monod (1910-1976)
