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BUCHNER, Hans Ernst August (1850 – 1902)

BUCHNER, Hans Ernst August (1850 – 1902)

1850 – 1902

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1889 CE

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Ueber die bakterientödtende Wirkung des zellenfreien Blutserums.

BUCHNER, Hans Ernst August (1850 – 1902)
BUCHNER, Hans Ernst August (1850 – 1902)

Following Nuttall’s work, Buchner discovered a substance in blood serum that was capable of destroying bacteria. He called the substance "alexin". He demonstrated that the bactericidal power of defibrinated bloo…