Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a #German #biochemist and corecipient, with Archibald V. Hill, of the 192…

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a #German #biochemist and corecipient, with Archibald V. Hill, of the 1922 #NobelPrize for #Physiology or Medicine for research on the chemical reactions of #metabolism in #muscle. In 1940 he emigrated to America.

Meyerhof demonstrated that the production of #lacticacid in muscle tissue, formed as a result of #glycogen breakdown, was effected without the consumption of oxygen (i.e., #anaerobically). The lactic acid was reconverted to glycogen through #oxidation by molecular #oxygen, during muscle rest.

This line of research was continued by Gustav Embden and Carl and Gerty Cori who worked out in greater detail the steps by which glycogen is converted to lactic acid - the #Embden-Meyerhof pathway.

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