Eduard Buchner's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Eduard Buchner (German: [ˈeːduaʁt ˈbuːxnɐ] ; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and expert on fermentation (sometimes called a zymologist), awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. The birth-card coordinate for May 20 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1907 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1907 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

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Eduard Buchner in the public record

Buchner was born in Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine. His older brother was the bacteriologist Hans Ernst August Buchner. In 1884, he began studies of chemistry with Adolf von Baeyer and of botany with Carl Nägeli, at the Botanic Institute in Munich. After a period working with Otto Fischer (cousin of Emil Fischer) at the University of Erlangen, Buchner was awarded a doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1888 under Theodor Curtius. Buchner was appointed assistant lecturer in the organic laboratory of Adolf von Baeyer in 1889 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1891, he was promoted to lecturer at the same university. In the autumn of 1893, Buchner moved to Kiel University and appointed professor in 1895. In the next year, he was appointed Professor Extraordinary for Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the chemical laboratory of H. von Pechmann at the University of Tübingen.

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Eduard Buchner (German: [ˈeːduaʁt ˈbuːxnɐ] ; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and expert on fermentation (sometimes called a zymologist), awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

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Also on the record

1. In October 1898, he was appointed to the Chair of General Chemistry in the Agricultural University of Berlin, fully training his assistants by himself, and received his habilitation in 1900.
2. In 1909, he was transferred to the University of Breslau (reorganised to be University of Wrocław in 1945), and in 1911, he moved to University of Würzburg.
3. Buchner received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907.
4. The experiment for which Buchner won the Nobel Prize consisted of producing a cell-free extract of yeast cells and showing that this "press juice" could ferment sugar.

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