Felix Ehrlich
Felix Ehrlich ( born June 16, 1877 in Harriehausen, today Bad Gandersheim, † 1942 in Obernigk in Breslau) was a German biochemist.
Life and work
Felix Ehrlich studied in Berlin and Munich. After receiving his doctorate in 1900, he worked at the Institute of Sugar Industry in Berlin. In 1906 he qualified as a professor in chemistry. From 1909 he was professor at Breslau, and later as director of the Institute for Biotechnology and agriculture.
Ehrlich discovered the amino acid isoleucine in hemoglobin (1903), developed a method for the resolution of racemic amino acids ( 1906), the formation of fusel oils described by amino acid fermentation during alcoholic fermentation (1905 ) and worked on the organization and the structure of pectins.