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4 unusual facts about Leonor Michaelis


Leonor Michaelis

After receiving his medical degree, Michaelis worked as a private research assistant to Moritz Litten (1899–1902) and for Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1902–1906).

Maud Menten

In 1912 she moved to Berlin where she worked with Leonor Michaelis and co-authored their paper in Biochemische Zeitschrift (1913;49:333–369) which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex.

Victor Henri

In a seminal paper in 1913, Michaelis and Menten derived the equation in more detail and interpreted it more profoundly.

Notably, his work was taken up by German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and Canadian physician Maud Menten.



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