Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin:
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin was a Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 15, 1873, Augsburg, Germany
Death:
November 6, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden
Claim to Fame:
Euler-Chelpin was a Swedish biochemist who shares the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Arthur Harden for their investigations into the process of fermentation and the actions of enzymes during fermentation. His research concerned the action of enzymes on a substrate is a bond between an acid group and a alkaline group. He isolated the cozymase, the coenzyme of the yeast enzyme zymase, and determined its structure.
