Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient. Dr. Eduard Buchner received world-wide recognition as a German biochemist, who was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The 1907 Nobel Prize presentation ceremony was canceled with the death of King Oscar II of Sweden two days earlier. Buchner's acceptance speech was published. According to the Nobel Prize Committee, he received this coveted award "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation." He demonstrated that the fermentation of carbohydrates results from the action of different enzymes contained in yeast than the yeast cell itself. He proved that the enzyme called "Zymase," can be extracted from yeast cells, which causes sugar to breakdown into alcohol and carbon dioxide. After studying under 1905 Nobel Prize recipient, Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich, he received his doctorate in 1888. Although he did not receive much encouragement, his 1898 appointment as agricultural professorship at the University of Berlin afforded him the opportunity to continue his research. Born the son of Dr. Ernst Buchner, Professor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine and physician at the University of Berlin, he was twelve years old when his father died, and his plans were to find a position in retail for an income as there was no funds for his education. His 10-year older brother, Hans, supported his efforts to be educated. After finishing studies in local schools, he began lessons at Munich Polytechnic, and within a short time developed an interest in science. It was at this point, he transferred to the University of Berlin and started studying with Baeyer as well as his brother, Hans, who was a bacteriologist. The Lamont Scholarship, which is awarded by the Philosophical Faculty, kept him in his studies for three years and von Baeyer funded him a small laboratory in 1883 to study yeast cells. In 1893 he transferred to the University of Kiel and by 1895 was made a professor. In 1896 he was called as the Professor Extraordinary for Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen. On January 9, 1897 he submitted his first paper for publication, "On Alcohol Fermentation Without Yeast Cells." In October of 1898, he was appointed to the Chair of General Chemistry in the Agricultural College in Berlin, and this followed with an appointment in 1909 to the University of Breslau and in 1911 to Würzburg University. In 1902, his brother Hans died. He co-authored with his brother and Martin Hahn the textbook "Zymosis," which documented his research and was published in 1903. He married Lotte Stahl in 1900 and had two sons and a daughter. Politically, Buchner was an admirer of Otto von Bismarck and a follower of the National Liberal party. He enlisted in the German Army in 1914 at the dawn of World War I. Except for a short time teaching at the university, he was on the Western Front then later on the Eastern Front. While serving at the rank of major in a field hospital on the front during the Romanian-Russian offensive at Focsani in Romania, he was wounded on August 3, 1917 with shrapnel, dying ten days later.