Leonor Michaelis

German-born biochemist

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In Maud Leonora Menten
…enzyme kinetics with German-born biochemist Leonor Michaelis at a hospital in Berlin, and the two quickly developed a theory—the Michaelis-Menten hypothesis—to explain the mechanism and velocity of reversible reactions between enzymes and their substrates. According to the hypothesis, the velocity of an enzymatic reaction and the concentration of substrate available…
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