Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970)

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

German biochemist. Warburg was born on October 8, 1883 at Freiburg, Germany. He received his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Berlin in 1906 and Doctor of Medicine at Heidelberg in 1911. In 1918 he was appointed Professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Berlin-Dahlem. From 1931 he was head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology. He was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, London and a member of the Academies of Berlin. Warburg died on August 1, 1970, in Berlin.