Abstract
Gabriel Bertrand (1867-1962), a prolific French biochemist, pharmacist, and chemist, one of the fathers of enzymology, discovered an important number of enzymes, showed that many of them contained a metal, and the importance of traces of many elements on the development of living organisms. He synthesized many new compounds by oxidation of keto sugars and polyalcohols, studied the poison of batrachians and vipers and prepared their antidotes, studied wine fermentation, the transformation of xylose into xylite, the phenomena produced by Aspergillus Niger, the action of yeast, alkaloids, etc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 230-245 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Revista CENIC. Ciencias Biológicas |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2014 |