Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden (October 12th 1865 - June 17th 1940) was a biochemist English, colauréat of the Nobel Prize of chemistry with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for his research on the Fermentation of the Sucre and the Enzyme S of fermentation.

Harden was born the October 12th 1865 with Manchester, wire of Albert Tyas Harden and Eliza Macalister. He studied in a private school and in Tettenhall College in the Staffordshire then with the Université of Manchester which he left graduate in 1885. In 1886, it received the grant Dalton in chemistry, and spent one year to be worked with Otto Fischer with Erlangen. It returned then to Manchester as lecturer and demonstrator until 1897, then obtained a post of chemist at the very new British Institute of preventive medicine (which became then the Institut To list). In 1907, it was named with the direction of the department of biochemistry, where it remained until its retirement in 1930 (although it continued to undertake to it research afterwards during its retirement).

In Manchester, Harden studied the action of the Lumière on the mixtures of Carbon dioxide and Chlore, and when it entered to the Institute it applied its method to the study of biochemical phenomena such as the chemical action of the Bactérie S or that the alcoholic Fermentation. He studied the products of decomposition of the Glucose and the chemistry of the Levure S. He also produced a series of publications on Vitamine S against the Scorbut and the Névrite.

Harden was anobli in 1926, and received several honorary doctorates. He was member of the Royal Society and received the Davy Médaille in 1935. He dies out the June 17th 1940 with Bourne End.

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