Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Eduard Buchner-The Nobel prize in 1907

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share

Eduard Buchner-The Nobel prize in 1907

German biochemist who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for demonstrating that the #fermentation of carbohydrates results from the action of different #enzymes contained in yeast and not the yeast cell itself. He showed that an enzyme, zymase, can be extracted from #yeast cells and that it causes sugar to break up into carbon dioxide and alcohol.

In his studies, Buchner gathered liquid from crushed yeast cells. Then he demonstrated that components of the liquid, which he referred to as "#zymases," could independently produce #alcohol in the presence of #sugar. "Careful investigations have shown that the formation of carbon dioxide is accompanied by that of alcohol, and indeed in just the same proportions as in fermentation with live yeast," Buchner noted in his #Nobel speech.

Source:britannica

Follow: http://polymerguru.blogspot.com

#nobelprize #chemistry #yeast #fermentation