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A history of research on yeasts 3: Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner and their contemporaries, 1880–1900
Author(s) -
Barnett James A.,
Lichtenthaler Frieder W.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
yeast
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.923
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1097-0061
pISSN - 0749-503X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0061(20010315)18:4<363::aid-yea677>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - mysticism , biology , sugar , invertase , botany , philosophy , theology , biochemistry , sucrose
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a "vital principle" than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. (Jacques Loeb 1906 [138] p.22.)