Felix Hoppe-Seyler

Felix Hoppe-Seyler
Felix Hoppe-Seyler
Born	Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe (1825-12-26)26 December 1825 Freyburg (Unstrut), Kreis Weißenfels, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation
Died	10 August 1895(1895-08-10) (aged 69) Wasserburg am Bodensee, Bezirksamt Lindau, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Friedrich University of Halle Leipzig University Friedrich Wilhelm University Charles Ferdinand University University of Vienna
Scientific career
Fields	physiology chemistry
Institutions	Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Leipzig University

Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (né Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. He had discovered Yeast nucleic acid which is now called RNA in his attempts to follow up and confirm Miescher's results by repeating parts of Miescher's experiments. He took the name Hoppe-Seyler when he was adopted by his brother-in-law, a grandson of the famous theatre principal Abel Seyler.