Meyer, Karl

Meyer, Karl, Nachrbl. deut. Pflanzenschutzdienst (Stuttgart) 13f8], 120-4 (1961). 

Meyer, Karl, and Rapport, Maurice M, Hyaluronidases. XIII... 

Besonderer Dank gebuhrt den Herren FtA G. Maibucher und Dr. Karl Meyer, sowie der WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, insbesondere Frau Dr. Oberbeckmann-Winter und Frau Claudia Zschernitz fur die hoch-erfreuliche Zusammenarbeit bei der Herstellung und Drucklegung dieses Buches. 

The other half-metal referred to in the preceding letter was hydro-siderum, a false element which Apothecary Johann Karl Friedrich Meyer of Stettin, Scheele, and M. H. Klaproth later proved to be a phosphate of iron (73, 74, 41). In another of his letters to Hjelm Scheele said, As far as I can judge of your work, it does you all credit (9). Although this correspondence shows that Hjelm must have isolated molybdenum as early as the fall of 1781, his first paper on it was not published until much later. 

Submitted by Karl Meyer and Henry S. Bloch. Checked by H. R. Snyder and Curtis W. Smith. 

S. M. McElvain Karl Meyer M. S. Newman Gust Nichols F. P. Pingert Norman Rabjohn S. Rajagopalan P. V. A. Raman R. R. Read... 

Karsten Meyer was born in 1968 in Herne, Germany. In May 1995, he received his diploma in chemistry from the Ruhr-University Bochum. He then began his graduate education under the direction of Professor Karl Wieghardt at the Max-Planck-Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Miilheim/Ruhr. Dr. Meyer s thesis work involved the... 

Metallurgical Applications of Shock-Wave and High-Strain-Rate Phenomena, edited by Lawrence E. Murr, Karl P. Staudhammer, and Marc A. Meyers... 

Karl Meyer was a physician and biochemist who emigrated firom Hitler s Germany to America and worked at that time in the Eye Institute of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in New York. He did not discover hyaluronic acid, which was known under the name of mucoitin sulfate, but he verified its chemical structure and discovered that it contained no sulfur. But, most importantly, he gave a new, more appropriate name to it hyaluronic acid. After reading his papers, I concluded... 

I also held the Malcolm P. Aldrich Research Professorship. At that time it was the largest eye research institute affiliated with a clinical ophthalmology department in the country. The Columbia Connection held a special place of importance for me, since Karl Meyer had started his own research on hyaluronan there about 40 years earlier. Another famous biochemist was still at the Institute, Zacharias Dische, who made his fame studying glycoproteins. A few years later in 1977, I invited Karl Meyer to move back to the Eye Institute from Yeshiva University, which just closed its graduate program. He continued his research at the same place where he had started it 45 years previously imtil his death. 

Later, a more detailed investigation was performed by Karl Meyer, who summarized the results as follows [9] "From the vitreous humor of cattle eyes a polysaccharide acid of high molecular mass has been obtained... As constituents there have been recognized a uronic acid, an amino sugar... It appears to be a substance unique in higher animals, and may be best compared with some of the specific polysaccharides of bacteria... We propose, for convenience, the name "hyaluronic acid", from hyaloid (vitreous) + uronic acid". 

The term "hyaluronidase" was introduced by Karl Meyer [207] to denote the enzymes that degrade predominantly HA. The enzymes were originally classified into three distinct classes, utilizing a scheme based only on the biochemical analyses of the... 

We now know that Meyer s classification scheme was remarkably accurate, and no modification is required. This is a tribute to biochemists such as Karl Meyer who worked in that golden age of carbohydrate chemistry and enzymology. 

The preparation of all the current German and English editions have a closely-knit history with the Fraunhofer Institut fur chemische Techno-logie (ICT, formerly the Institut fur Chemie der Treib- und Explosivstoffe with its head offices in Pfinztal/Berghausen near Karlsruhe, Germany. This institute was initially founded by Dr. Karl Meyer, Dr. Rudolf Meyer s elder brother in 1957, as part of the Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, and was extended later on. 

Immediately after obtaining his doctorate in chemistry in 1960, Dr. Fred Volk joined the ICT, which had then just been built in Pfinztal, where he worked closely with Dr. Karl Meyer. The main focus of his research within the area of explosive analysis was on the use of thin-layer chromatography and mass spectrometry as well as on calculating thermodynamic energies used in explosive and combustion processes. The many key words and the related articles in Explosives dealing with theoretical and thermodynamic performances were painstakingly checked, or written by Dr. F. Volk himself, each time before a new edition was printed. 

Rodney Turner, Sylvia Sterrer, Karl-Heinz Wiesmiiller and Franz-Josef Meyer-Aimes... 

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