Untersuchungen über die Nukleine und ihre Spaltungsprodukte (Investigations into the nucleins and their cleavage products), 1881
Die Gewebe des menschlichen Körpers und ihre mikroskopische Untersuchung (The tissues in the human body and their microscopic investigation), 1889-1891
Leitfaden für medizinisch-chemische Kurse (Textbook for medical-chemical courses), 1888
Die Probleme der Biochemie (The problems of biochemistry), 1908
Die Beziehungen der Chemie zur Physiologie (The relationships between chemistry and physiology), 1913
Kossel was born in Rostock as the son of Prussian consulAlbrechtKossel and his wife Clara.
In 1872, Kossel went to the University of Strasbourg to study medicine, where he visited lectures of Anton de Bary, Waldeyer, Kundt, Baeyer and Felix Hoppe-Seyler.
Kossel was awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in cell biology, especially proteins and nucleic acids.