Embden, Gustav

The glycolytic pathway was the first major metabolic sequence to be elucidated. Much of the definitive work was done in the 1930s by the German biochemists, Gustav Embden, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Warburg. Because of their contributions the alternative name, Embden-Meyerhof pathway, is sometimes used for the glycolytic pathway. 

Gustav George Embden (1874-1933) was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated at Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Strasbourg, and Zurich. In 1904, he became director of the chemistry laboratory of the medical clinic at the Frankfurt municipal hospital, and then became professor at the University of Frankfurt (1914-1933). He was the first to show the role of the liver in metabolism. 

Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Gustav-Embden-Zentrum der Biolo-gischen Chemie, Abteilung fur Molekularbiologie, Frankfurt (Main)... 

Gustav Embden-Zentmm der Biologischen Chemie, J. W. Goethe-Universitdt, Frankfurt/Main, F.R.G., and Department of Physiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, U.S.A. 

Christoph Woenckhaus (24), Gustav-Embden Zentrum der Biologischen Chemie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitdt, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany... 

I The elucidation of the glycolytic pathway based on the work of Gustav Embden,... 

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