Emil Abderhalden

Emil Abderhalden
Born(1877-03-09)9 March 1877
Oberuzwil in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Died5 August 1950(1950-08-05) (aged 73)
Zürich, Switzerland
EducationUniversity of Basel (Doctorate, 1902)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
Biochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
University of Halle
University of Zurich
Academic advisorsHermann Emil Fischer[1]

Emil Abderhalden (9 March 1877 – 5 August 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. 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 Abderhalden edited.[2]

  1. ^ Charpa, Ulrich; Deichmann, Ute (2007). Jews and Sciences in German Contexts: Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries. ISBN 9783161491214. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ Andrea Sella (February 2009). "Classic Kit: Abderhalden's drying pistol". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry.