Emil Abderhalden

Emil Abderhalden (1877 to 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s, and whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigour remains unclear. Abderhalden's drying pistol, used in chemistry, was first described by one of his students in a textbook that Abderhalden edited. The source lead for this entry is short, so it records his nationality, his fields, the dispute over his findings and the drying pistol and leaves his appointments and the detail of his work to further research from fuller sources.