Everything about Leonor Michaelis totally explained
Leonor Michaelis (
January 16,
1875 –
October 8,
1949) was a
German biochemist and
physician famous for his work with
Maud Menten in
enzyme kinetics and
Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
Born in
Berlin (
Germany), he studied
medicine in
Freiburg, where he graduated in 1897. He then moved to
Berlin, where he received his doctorate the same year. Michaelis worked as assistant to
Paul Ehrlich (
1898–
1899),
Moritz Litten (
1899–1902) and
Ernst Viktor von Leyden (
1902–1906). In
1906 he started as director of the bacteriology lab in
Berlins
Charité hospital, becoming Professor extraordinary at
Berlin University in 1908. In
1922 he moved to the Medical School of the
University of Nagoya (
Japan) as Professor of
biochemistry,
1926 to
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland as resident lecturer in medical
research and 1929 to the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in
New York City, where he retired 1941.
Besides his role in the formulation of the
Michaelis-Menten equation (1913) he discovered
Janus green as a
supravital stain for
mitochondria and the
Michaelis-Gutmann body in
urinary tract infections (1902) and found that
thioglycolic acid could dissolve
keratin, making him the father of the
permanent wave.
He died in
New York City.
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