12 INTRODUCTION VOL. 12 (l953j 



I been a member of the Institu te for Muscl e Research founded by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 



' and Stephen Rath. " 



On May 8,_i950, General Maxwell D. Taylor, then Military Commandant of the 

 American Sector of Berlin, officially reopened the Dahlem institute. The rebirth of the 

 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology, celebrated with ceremony on that day, 



/ the fifth anniversary of the cessation of hostilities, was a signal event both for science 

 and for the promotion of good relations among men of good will everywhere. Today, 

 the Institute stands at the crest of the biochemical institutes of the world, and, in 



I addition, is probably the finest photochemical institute in existence. Its director expects 

 to do his greatest and boldest experiments, as did his distinguished father before him, 



/ after passing the three score and ten mark. His genius may be likened to a positive 

 first order reaction with an extended half-time, attained only after the Half-Century 

 of Biochemical Discovery listed below. His prescription for such continued scientific 

 production is provided by the photograph concluding this Introduction, taken at the 

 turn of his sixty-ninth birthday. 



It would be superfluous here to give an extended list of the many honors received 

 by Professor Warburg, such as the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1931, for iron-oxygenase), 

 Foreign Membership in the Royal Society of London (1934), and, most recently (1952), 



Knighthood in the Order of Merit bounded originally by Frederick the Great and 

 restricted to thirty of Germany's most distinguished citizens. 



A scientific appreciation of his work is probably best realized by the following 

 appended table, which contains a list of experimental contributions regarded by him 

 j as his most important discoveries. Most of these were accomplished and accepted only 

 after long struggle, but this was no disadvantage. For the greater the resistance to a 

 discovery, the more is the discoverer forced to fortify the new domain of knowledge; 

 and the greater is the final victory. At the moment, battle rages over the energetics 

 of photosynthesis. But the termination of this battle can no longer be in doubt when 

 one reads the two communications concluding this volume. Indeed Time, the sovereign 

 judge, has shown that all his published experiments have been right. Most of them 

 were ahead of their time. Thus, their significance is still increasing. 



