Hoppe‐Seyler, Ernst Felix Immanuel

1825–1895 German biochemist who discovered haemoglobin and investigated the chemistry of respiration. Founding editor of Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie.

Keywords: biochemistry; haemoglobin; absorption spectroscopy

 Further Reading
    book Hoppe-Seyler EFI (1858) Handbuch der physiologisch- und pathologisch-chemischen Analyse. Berlin: Hirschwald.
    Hoppe-Seyler EFI (1867) Zur Chemie des Blutes und seiner Bestandteile. Medizinisch-chemische Untersuchungen (Tübingen), pp. 293–297.
    book Hoppe-Seyler EFI (1881) Physiologische Chemie. Berlin: Hirschwald.
    Baumann E and Kossel A (1895) Obituary. Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie 21: i–lxv.
    Fischer E (1895) Obituary. Berichte der deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 28: 2333–2336.
    book Fruton JS (1972) "Hoppe-Seyler". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol.6, pp. 504–506. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Fruton JS (1990) Contrasts in Scientific Styles, chapter 3 and appendix 3. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society.
    Gamgee A (1895) Obituary. Nature 52: 575–576, 623–625.
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Brock, WH(Apr 2001) Hoppe‐Seyler, Ernst Felix Immanuel. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002434]