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Arthur Harden (1865 - 1940)

Arthur Harden (1865 - 1940)

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Arthur Harden:

Arthur Harden was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

October 12, 1865 in Manchester, England

Death:

June 17, 1940 in Bourne, Buckinghamshire.

Claim to Fame:

Harden was an English biochemist who shares the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the process of fermentation and the actions of enzymes during fermentation. His research was on the chemical actions of yeast cells on glucose.

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