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Büchner, Eduard (1860–1917)


Eduard Buchner
German organic chemist who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery that fermentation did not require the presence of complete yeast cells but only an extract containing the enzyme zymase (which he isolated in 1903). This discovery inaugurated enzyme chemistry.


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