KÜHNE, Wilhelm Friedrich (1837 – 1900)
1837 – 1900
7 entries in the GMN corpus.
1859 CE
#620
Untersuchungen über Bewegungen und Veränderungen der contraktilen Substanz.
Proof of the coagulability of muscle proteins.
1862 CE
#1269
Ueber die peripherischen Endorgane der motorischen Nerven.
Kühne described the neuromuscular end organ (“Kühne’s spindle”) and introduced the term “telolemma” for the outer covering of its sheath.
1863 CE
#1270
Die Muskelspindeln. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Entwickelung der Muskeln und Nervenfasem.
The best early description of proprioceptive receptors in muscles.
1874 CE–1877 CE
#1012
Ueber das Trypsin.
Isolation of trypsin.
1876 CE
#700.1
Ueber das Verhalten verschiedener organisirter und sog. ungeformter Fermente (pp.191-193); Trypsin (Enzym des Pankreas) (pp.194-198).
Kühne was one of the people who introduced the term “enzyme”. He wrote, "Um Missverständnisse vorzubeugen und lästige Umschreibungen zu vermeiden schlägt Vortragender vor, die ungeformt…
1878 CE
#1519
Ueber den Sehpurpur.
Kühne was Professor of Physiology at Amsterdam and Heidelberg. Among his best work is his investigation of visual purple (rhodopsin) which he was first to extract from the retina. Several other papers by him on t…
1883 CE
#1016
Ueber die nächsten Spaltungsproducte der Eiweisskörper.
Kühne and Chittenden isolated and named several new substances during their investigation of the products of digestion. See also the same journal, 1884, 20, 11-51; 1886, 22, 409-58; 1889, 25, 358-67.