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. 2001 Mar 15;18(4):363-88.
doi: 10.1002/1097-0061(20010315)18:4<363::AID-YEA677>3.0.CO;2-R.

A history of research on yeasts 3: Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner and their contemporaries, 1880-1900

J A Barnett  1 , F W Lichtenthaler
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A history of research on yeasts 3: Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner and their contemporaries, 1880-1900

J A Barnett et al. Yeast. .

Abstract

Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a "vital principle" than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. (Jacques Loeb 1906 [138] p.22.)

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