The Carlsberg Laboratory and in the foreground a statue of its founder J.C. Jacobsen.

The Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark was generously created in 1875 by J. C. Jacobsen, the founder of the Carlsberg brewery, for the sake of advancing biochemical knowledge, especially relating to brewing. It featured a Department of Chemistry and a Department of Physiology. In 1972, the laboratory was renamed the Carlsberg Research Center and was transferred to the brewery. Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish   IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)). It is also the name of the... J. C. Jacobsen (1811-1887) was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. ... Inside view of one of the Ny Carlsberg gates Inside view of the Ny Carlsberg elephant gate Outside view of one of the Ny Carlsberg gates View of Carlsberg from the 16th floor of Kongens Bryghus, Vesterbro, Copenhagen The Carlsberg headquarters Note: Carling beer is not produced by the Carlsberg...

The Carlsberg Laboratory was widely known as a productive and pleasant place for protein science, and enjoyed a series of illustrious directors, including Johan Kjeldahl, S. P. L. Sorensen, and Kaj Linderstrom-Lang. Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl (1849 – 1900), was a Danish chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in certain organic compounds using a laboratory technique which was named the Kjeldahl method after him. ...

The Carlsberg Laboratory was also famous for isolating Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, the species of yeast responsible for lager fermentation. Its a Yeast species, which is believed to be originated from S. cerevisiae and S. monacensis, for its amphiploid genome. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Typical divisions Ascomycota Saccharomycotina (true yeasts) Taphrinomycotina Schizosaccharomycetes (fission yeasts) Basidiomycota Basidiomycotina (club fungi) Urediniomycetes Sporidiales Yeasts are unicellular, eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi. ... Lager beers are alcoholic beverages of German and Czech origin, taking their name from the German lagern (to store). Lagers are brewed principally from malted barley (without cane sugar, an adjunct), hops and water at low temperatures (usually between 5°C and 15°C) that cause bottom-fermentation. ... Fermentation typically refers to the conversion of sugar to alcohol using yeast. ...

Research from the Carlsberg Laboratory was published in its journal, Comptes rendus des travaux du laboratoire Carlsberg, which is often abbreviated to Compt. rend. trav. lab. Carlsberg or simply C. R. Trav. Lab. Carlsberg.

Directors

Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl (1849 – 1900), was a Danish chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in certain organic compounds using a laboratory technique which was named the Kjeldahl method after him. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen, born in Havrebjerg, Denmark on January 9, 1868 and died on February 12, 1939, was a Danish chemist. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (Nov. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Carlsberg
• J. C. Jacobsen

Inside view of one of the Ny Carlsberg gates Inside view of the Ny Carlsberg elephant gate Outside view of one of the Ny Carlsberg gates View of Carlsberg from the 16th floor of Kongens Bryghus, Vesterbro, Copenhagen The Carlsberg headquarters Note: Carling beer is not produced by the Carlsberg... J. C. Jacobsen (1811-1887) was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. ...

References

1. ↑  Schellman JA, Schellman CG. (1997) Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang (1896-1959). Protein Sci. 1997 May;6(5):1092-100 (full text article online: Entrez PubMed 9144781).

• Richards FM. (1992) "Linderstrøm-Lang and the Carlsberg Laboratory: The view of a postdoctoral fellow in 1954", Protein Sci., 1, 1721-1730.
• Scheraga HA. (1992) "Contribution of physical chemistry to an understanding of protein structure and function", Protein Sci., 1, 691-693.
• Holter H and Møller KM, eds.(1976) The Carlsberg Laboratory 1876/1976, Rhodos International Science and Art Publ., Copenhagen.