Eduard Buchner (1860 - 1917)

Born 20 May 1860 in München, Königreich Bayern, Deutscher Bund

Died 13 Aug 1917 at age 57 in Focsani, Romania

Biography

Eduard Buchner is Notable.

Eduard Buchner (German pronunciation: (20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

During the 19th century it was discovered that microorganisms were behind biochemical processes, such as fermentation, which is caused by microscopic fungi. This raised questions about whether such processes were a manifestation of a special life force that existed only with living matter. In 1897 Eduard Buchner discovered that yeast extract with no living yeast fungi can form alcohol from a sugar solution. The conclusion was that biochemical processes do not necessarily require living cells, but are driven by special substances, enzymes, formed in cells.

Buchner married Lotte Stahl in 1900. At the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered and rose to the rank of Major commanding a munition-transport unit on the western and then eastern front. In March 1916 he returned the University of Wurzburg. In April 1917 he volunteered again. On 11 August 1917, while stationed at Focșani, Romania, he was hit by a shell fragment and died two days later.

Buchner has NO umlaut. The Büchner funnel is NOT named after him, it is named after Ernst Büchner. He has an umlaut.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Buchner

• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1907/buchner-facts.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCchner_funnel