Karl Meyer (biochemist)

For the pathologist, see Karl Friedrich Meyer.

Karl Meyer (4 September 1899 – 18 May 1990) was a German biochemist. He worked on connective tissue and determined the properties of hyaluronan in the 1930s.[1][2]

  1. ^ Meyer K, Hobby GL, Chaffee E, Dawson MH (January 1940). "The Hydrolysis of Hyaluronic Acid by Bacterial Enzymes". J Exp Med. 71 (2): 137–46. doi:10.1084/jem.71.2.137. PMC 2135078. PMID 19870951.
  2. ^ McDonald, J.; Hascall, V. C. (2002). "The Discovery of Hyaluronan by Karl Meyer". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (7): 4575–4579. doi:10.1074/jbc.r100064200. PMID 11717319.