Otto Heinrich Warburg

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931

“for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme”

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German biochemist and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme. He worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie. His research contributed to understanding cellular respiration.