Kossel, Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht

WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002850

1853–1927 German biochemist who investigated nuclein.

Keywords: nuclein; nucleic acid; protamines; histones

 Further Reading
    book Kossel A (1928) The Protamines and Histones. London: Longmans (posthumous).
    book Kossel A (1967) "The chemical composition of the cell nucleus". Nobel Lectures Physiology or Medicine 1901–1921, pp. 394–407. Elsevier: Amsterdam.
    Jones ME (1953) Albrecht Kossel, a biographical sketch. Yale Journal of Biological Medicine 26: 80–97.
    Kennaway E (1952) Some recollections of Albrecht Kossel. Annals of Science 8: 393–397.
    book Kurt F (1961) "Albert Kossel". In: Farber E (ed.) Great Chemists, pp. 1032–1037. New York: Interscience.
    book Olby R (1973) "Kossel, Albrecht". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 7, pp. 466–468. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Olby R (1994) The Path to the Double Helix. New York: Dover Publications.

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Brock, WH(Apr 2001) Kossel, Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002850]