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Emil Abderhalden Information (0 words) |
 | Abderhalden is known for a blood test for pregnancy, a test for cystine in urine, and for explaining the Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome, a recessive genetic condition. |
| As Abderhalden was seen as the founder of scientific biochemistry in Germany, questioning his work could harm one's career as Leonor Michaelis discovered in the mid-1910s; by 1922, Michaelis' reputation was so tarnished that he had to leave the country to embark on an outstanding career of scientific success abroads. |
| Additionally, Abderhalden's work was strongly ideologically slanted: his theory was put to use for human experiments by Otmar von Verschuer and Josef Mengele to develop a blood test to separate "aryan" from "non-aryan" individuals. |
| Nautilus: Enduring history of a fraud (0 words) |
| In the area of human reproductive biology, the Korean scandal is overshadowed by the case of the influential German physiologist Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) and the non-existent Abwehrfermente or 'defence enzymes' he claimed to have discovered. |
| Emil Abderhalden's inclusion in German scientific and medical databases and his apparent sustained respectibility with a segment of the contemporary German scientific establishment is clearly not because a majority (or even a minority) of contemporary German scientists believe in Abderhalden's so-called Abwehrfermente ('defence enzymes'). |
| Emil Abderhalden's inclusion in the list of honoured founders of physiological chemistry (as biochemistry was known then) is not entirely without merit. |
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