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Maud Leonora Menten's name is immortalized in the standard kinetic behavior of biological catalysts called enzymes ("from yeast"). She and Michaelis described a simple model of substrate binding, transformation, and product release that describes the behavior of enzymes in the steady-state. This type of behavior is called Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Their work was done in the early 20th century, long before any enzymes were purified. |
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Hans Krebs received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1953 for his work on how cells extract energy in a usable form from reduced organic compounds. Of course, his name is well known and often repeated in biochemistry classes, where the Krebs cycle is a major topic of discussion. |