Carlsberg Laboratory
The Carlsberg Research Center is one of the Danish Carlsberg brewery owned research organization based in Copenhagen. It dates back to 1875 by the founder of the brewery, the industrialist and philanthropist Jacob Christian Jacobsen, furnished Carlsberg Laboratory as part of the Carlsberg Foundation. Focus of the activities is the application-oriented research in the field of natural sciences, particularly chemistry and biotechnology, with special reference to the brewing industry and the use of fermentation processes for industrial purposes.
History
The starting point of the Carlsberg Research Center was the Carlsberg Laboratory, which was established in May 1875 as part of the Carlsberg Foundation with two departments of chemistry and physiology. After the merger of the Carlsberg brewery with the Tuborg brewery in 1972, the research institutes of the two companies were merged in the form of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory. After the transfer of jurisdiction for the Carlsberg Laboratory of the Foundation for the brewery Carlsberg Research Center, which since the Carlsberg Laboratory and the Carlsberg Research Laboratory was established four years later belong. The two divisions of the Carlsberg Laboratory in 2004 reorganized into six cross-thematic research areas.
Important research in the history of the Carlsberg Research Center were the development of Kjeldahlschen nitrogen determination by Johan Kjeldahl, director of the chemical department of the Carlsberg Laboratory from 1876 to 1900, the development of a method for pure culture of yeast by Emil Christian Hansen, director of the physiological division of 1879-1909, and the establishment of the pH scale by Søren Sørensen, director of the chemical division of 1901 until 1938.
The Carlsberg Laboratory was under the titles " Meddelelser fra Carlsberglaboratoriet ", " Comptes rendus - des travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg. Série Chimique " ( 1935-1958 ), " Comptes rendus des travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg. Série Physiologique " ( 1934-1957 ) " Comptes rendus des travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg " ( 1958-1976 ) and" Carlsberg Research Communications "(1976 to 1989) own scientific periodicals.
Organization and orientation
The Carlsberg Research Center currently consists of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory and the Carlsberg Laboratory. Focus of the work of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory is to support the Carlsberg brewery through research in the field of chemistry of brewing and the development of appropriate analytical methods. The orientation of the Carlsberg Laboratory is far-reaching and next brewery -related research includes projects in other areas of industrial biotechnology and biomedical research. It is divided into six areas of cell biology, molecular recognition processes, enzymology, chemistry of hydrocarbons, structural biology, Hefebiologie and NMR technology.