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From: daf@bms.brookes.ac.uk (David Fell)
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Subject: Historical question about metabolism
Date: 15 Nov 1995 18:04:18 -0000
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Can anyone help me resolve a historical question, please?  In connection 
with the inital observation that alcoholic fermentation can be observed in 
cell-free extracts of yeast, biochemistry books give one of two basic 
accounts (which siggests that they are all working from two common sources):
1.  That it was discovered by the Buchner brothers (both with and without an 
umlaut on the u).
2.  That it was discovered by Eduard Buchner (no umlaut) in 1897.

Which is more accurate, and what about the umlaut?


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David Fell,
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