Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates  Otto Meyerhof and the
Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry  Ludolf
von Krehl's search for colleagues who would integrate the then
quite separate disciplines of the natural sciences under the
umbrella of biomedical research led him to Otto Meyerhof.
Meyerhof's study of intermediate metabolism involved a mix of
physiology, pharmacology, physics and pathology. His already
well-known successes with the study of muscle physiological
chemistry, for which he had won a Nobel Prize in 1922, made him
a logical choice as head of the KWImF's proposed Physiology
Institute.  Otto Meyerhof Otto Meyerhof Photo: Courtesy of
Walter Meyerhof, son of Otto Meyerhof   The years Meyerhof spent
at the KWImF represent the most important and productive phase
of his brilliant career.  Indeed, some scientific historians,
including Thomas Kuhn, believe the work during the 1930s in the
laboratories of Meyerhof, Parnas, Embden, Warburg and a few
others was the mark of true scientific r