Meyerhof

American

[mahy-er-hof, mahy-uhr-hohf] / ˈmaɪ ərˌhɒf, ˈmaɪ ərˌhoʊf /

noun

Otto 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.

Meyerhof British

/ ˈmaiərhoːf /

noun

Otto ( Fritz ) (ˈɔto). 1884–1951, German physiologist, noted for his work on the metabolism of muscles. He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1922

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His mother, Irene Meyerhof Erdoes, was born in Germany, served as a United Nations interpreter and later worked at the Internal Revenue Service.

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That conclusion moved Stanford physicist Walter Meyerhof to turn poetic.

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