Otto Fritz Meyerhof

Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884 to 1951) was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, shared with Archibald Vivian Hill, for his work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis. Born in Hannover to wealthy Jewish parents, he studied medicine in Berlin, Strasbourg and Heidelberg and graduated at Heidelberg in 1909, then moved to the University of Kiel in 1912, where he received a professorship in 1918. From 1929 he was one of the directors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg until 1938, when he emigrated, and he finally took a guest professorship at the University of Pennsylvania. The common series of glycolytic reactions in eukaryotes is named the Embden Meyerhof Parnas pathway in part for him.