爱德华·布赫纳:生物化学的奠基人

Edward Buchner:The Founder of Biochemistry

爱德华·布赫纳通过实验发现发酵过程可以在无细胞的条件下发生,这个发现解决了19世纪中后期巴斯德和李比希之间关于发酵性质的争论。布赫纳将酵母研磨过滤后得到的无生命物质称为酶,他认为发酵只是由可溶性酶进行的。他的实验和理论在当时产生了一些争议,这让酶理论逐步受到重视并启动了酶学的发展,并打开了现代生物化学的大门。

Eduard Buchner discovered that fermentation could take place without cells by experiment,which settled the debate between Pasteur and Liebig about the nature of fermentation in the mid-to-late 19th century.Buchner described the inanimate material produced by grinding and filtering yeast as enzymes,and he believed that fermentation was carried out by soluble enzymes.His experiments and theories generated some controversy at the time,which gradually brought attention to enzyme theory and initiated the development of enzymology,and opened the door of modern biochemistry.