Eduard Alois Buchner

In memoriam

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient. Dr. Eduard Buchner received world-wide recognition as a German biochemist, who was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The 1907 Nobel Prize presentation ceremony was canceled with the death of King Oscar II of Sweden two days earlier. Buchner's acceptance speech was published. According to the Nobel Prize Committee, he received this coveted award "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation." He demonstrated that the fermentation of carbohydrates results from the action of different enzymes contained in yeast than the yeast cell itself. He proved that the enzyme called "Zymase," can be extracted from yeast cells, which causes sugar to breakdown into alcohol and carbon dioxide. After studying under 1905 Nobel Prize recipient, Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich, he received his doctorate in 1888. Although he did not receive much encouragement, his 1898 appointment as agricultural professorship

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