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Maud Leonora Menten enzyme reaction curve; Michaelis-Menten kinetics
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Born March 20, 1879 • Canada
Died July 26, 1960 (aged 81) • Canada
Subjects Of Study Michaelis-Menten kinetics • enzyme • hemoglobin

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Maud Leonora Menten
enzyme reaction curve; Michaelis-Menten kinetics
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Ralph F. Hirschmann
American chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
James Batcheller Sumner
American biochemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist

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