12 Facts About Leonor Michaelis

Leonor Michaelis was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician.

Leonor Michaelis is known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones.

Leonor Michaelis was born in Berlin, Germany, on 16 January 1875 to Jewish parents Hulda and Moritz [1].

Leonor Michaelis passed his physician's examination in 1896 in Freiburg, and then moved to Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1897.

From 1900 to 1904, Leonor Michaelis continued his study of clinical medicine at a municipal hospital in Berlin, where he found time to establish a chemical laboratory.

Leonor Michaelis attained the position of Privatdocent at the University of Berlin in 1903.

Leonor Michaelis was one of the first to study enzyme inhibition, and to classify inhibition types as competitive or non-competitive.

Leonor Michaelis's book was the major reference on the subject for decades.

Leonor Michaelis found that thioglycolic acid could dissolve keratin, a discovery that would come to have several implications in the cosmetic industry, including the permanent wave.

Leonor Michaelis died on 8 October or 10 October, 1949 in New York City.

Leonor Michaelis was a Harvey Lecturer in 1924 and a Sigma Xi Lecturer in 1946.

Leonor Michaelis was elected to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1929, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1943.