History Flashcards
The father of modern chemistry compared the combustion of candle is similar to the respiration of animals as both need oxygen and also invented the terms oxygen and hydrogen.
Antoine Lavoisier 1780
Swedish founder of biochemistry
Studied chemical compositions of matter
Carl Schelle mid-1700
Was a common belief. Believed living organisms cannot be produced in a laboratory.
There should be a life force or spirit
Vitalism early 1800
Disproved vitalism. He was able to produce urea using non-living minerals.
The father of organic chemistry
Friedrich Wohler 1828
First step installation of alcoholic fermentation in cell-free yeast extracts
Eduard buchner 1893
Show that a variety of organic molecules including the amino acids could form in an early reducing atmosphere
Miller urey experiment
The term protein meaning the most important thing was first used in what year
1838
Discovered chromosomes in 1875
Walter Flemming
He proposed Krebs cycle in 1937
Hans kreb
Discovered the organism that causes “mad cow disease”
Stanley frusiner
He First used the term “biochemistry”
Carl Newburg
