On This Day in Science History - August 5

August 5^th marks the passing of Heinrich Wieland. Wieland was a German organic chemist who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. Bile is a liquid excreted by the liver to aid digestion and absorption of fatty foods. He found three different acids made up bile: cholic acid, deoxycholic acid and lithocholic acid. These three acids were all steroids and had similar structures. He also demonstrated the relationship between bile and cholesterol.

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