Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology.
13 Facts About Felix Hoppe-Seyler
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler originally trained to be a physician in Halle and Leipzig, and received his medical doctorate from Berlin in 1851.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler preferred scientific research to medicine, and later held positions in anatomy, applied chemistry, and physiological chemistry in Greifswald, Tubingen and Strasbourg.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler's work led to advances in organic chemistry by his students and by immunologist Paul Ehrlich.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler's mother died when he was six years old, and his father three years later.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler eventually entered the orphan asylum at Halle, where he attended the gymnasium.
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In 1858, he married Agnes Franziska Maria Borstein, and they had one son, Georg Felix Hoppe-Seyler, who became a professor of medicine in Kiel.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler was the first scientist to describe the optical absorption spectrum of the red blood pigment and its two distinctive absorption bands.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler recognized the binding of oxygen to erythrocytes as a function of hemoglobin, which in turn creates the compound oxyhemoglobin.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler was able to obtain hemoglobin in crystalline form, and confirmed that it contained iron.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler became an elected member of the French Academy of Sciences, despite the unfavorable political terms between France and Germany at that time, and this helped him gain an international reputation as the keen promoter of science.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler is credited with the isolation of several different proteins.
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler died in Wasserburg am Bodensee in the Kingdom of Bavaria.