Frédéric Alphonse Musculus
Friedrich Alphons Musculus (French Frédéric Alphonse Musculus; born July 16, 1829 in Sulz unterm Wald , French Soultz-sous-Forêts ; † May 26, 1888 ) was an Alsatian chemist .
Musculus discovered the ammoniacal urease fermentation enzyme (later called urease ) in 1876 and showed that this "soluble ferment" could cause fermentation without the living organism identified by Louis Pasteur as the cause. Pasteur acknowledged the discovery of muscle but stressed that the soluble ferment of muscle was a product of the organized ferment . In fact, Musculus had made a significant contribution to the knowledge of fermentation, similar to Eduard Buchner in 1897 in the area of alcoholic fermentation .
literature
- A. Schneegans: Festgabe for the German Pharmacists Association . Strasbourg 1897, p. 165. (Quoted by H. Schelenz.)
- Édouard Sitzmann: Dictionnaire de biography des hommes célèbres d'Alsace . Volume II, Paris 1909–1910, reprint Paris, 1973.
- Hermann Schelenz: History of Pharmacy . Georg Olms Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3487002426 , ISBN 9783487002422 , p. 694, see Google Books .
References
- ↑ Sur le ferment de l'urée . In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . Volume 82, 1876, pp. 333-336, see Gallica .
- ^ William Robert Fearon: Urease . In: Biochemical Journal . 1923, xvii, pp. 84-93, esp. P. 84, online (PDF; 1.1 MB).
- ↑ L. Pasteur and J. Joubert: Sur la fermentation de l'urine . Published several times in 1876; Œuvres complètes de Pasteur, Vol. 6, Paris, 1933, pp. 80–84, see Gallica
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| SURNAME | Musculus, Frédéric Alphonse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Musculus, Friedrich Alphons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soultz-sous-Forêts |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1888 |