Chemistry Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 3.10
Portrait of Felix
Hoppe-Seyler (1825-1895)
assistant to Rudolf Virchow in Berlin (1856) and was appointed there Extraordinary
Professor in 1860, afterwards Professor of Applied Chemistry in Tübingen and finally
(1872) Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität
Straßburg (now Strasbourg, France), where he remained for the rest of his life.
Based on his research activities, Felix Hoppe-Seyler (for portrait, see Fig.
3.10
)
is considered to be one of the founders—if not
the founder
—of biochemistry or
physiological chemistry. He revealed and named the haemoglobin. His student
Friedrich Miesche identified the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Hoppe-Seyler's
laboratory in Tübingen (1869).
His foundation (1877) of the journal
Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie
(from 1921 Biological Chemistry) was certainly an essential step to the estab-
lishment of this discipline, which has since grown to one of the most expanding
branches of chemical analytics. The same can be said about his comprehensive
textbooks
Handbuch der physiologisch
-
und pathologisch
-
chemischen Analyse
(1858 [
113
]) and
Physiologische Chemie
(4 volumes 1877-1881 [
114
]) with their
series of re-editions. Many of his students contributed to the growth of physiologi-
cal chemistry and to clinical chemistry. A considerable part of his pupils became
scholars and professors themselves.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin
(German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine) confers the
Felix-Hoppe-Seyler Award for scientific achievements in this area. Additional
information can be found at [
115
-
119
].
Julius N
essler
(born 6 June 1827, Kehl am Rhein; died 19 March 1905, Karlsruhe)
After studying chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from
1853, he was graduated in 1856 with the thesis
Über ein neues Reagenz auf
Search WWH ::
Custom Search