Figure ii> Otto Meyi rh 88 i 195O 



received one-half ol the Nobel Prize in 

 Medicine .md Physiology in 1922 for his 

 disi ovei j "I the metabolism ol la< tii ai id 

 in muscle, which involves the action of 

 phosphates, espe< i.ilK adenosine duophos- 

 phates. {Photo courtesy National Library qj 

 Medicine, Washington, D.C.) 



Figure 17. — Arthur Harden (1865 1940), left, and Hans \ s von Euler-Chelpin 

 (b. 1875), n - nt - shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistr) in 1929. Harden received it 

 for his research in fermentation, which showed the influence of phosphate, particu- 

 larly the formation of a hexose diphosphate. Euler-Chelpin received his award for 

 his resean h in fermentation. 1 i<- found coenzyme A which is a nucleotide containing 

 phosphoric acid. 



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