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Felix Hoppe-Seyler Names Hemoglobin

1864

In 1864 German physiologist and chemist in Tübingen Felix Hoppe-Seyler named the protein crystallized from blood haematoglobulin or haemoglobin (hemoglobin).

Hoppe-Seyler, “Ueber die chemischen und optischen Eigenschaftern des Blutsfarbstoffs,Arch. f. path. Anat. u. Physiol. (Virchow’s Archiv) 29 (1864) 233-35.

Judson, Eighth Day of Creation, 490.

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