From Bacteriology to Biochemistry: Albert Jan Kluyver and Chester Werkman at Iowa State

This essay explores connections between bacteriology and the disciplinary evolution of biochemistry in this country during the 1930s. Many features of intermediary metabolism, a central component of biochemistry, originated as attempts to answer fundamental bacteriological questions. Thus, many bact...

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Bacteria
Bacteriology
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Biochemistry
Biochemistry - history
Biochemistry
biophysics
cytology
Biology
C Werkman
Careers
Chemicals
Enzymes
Fermentation
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Kluyver
Life sciences
Metabolism
Microbiology
Microbiology
bacteriology
virology
Microbiology
parasitology
Physiology
Research - history
Research programs
State colleges
United States
Werkman
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