Gustav Georg EmbdenArticle Free Pass Gustav Georg Embden, (born
Nov. 10, 1874, Hamburg—died July 25, 1933, Nassau, Ger.), German
physiological chemist who conducted studies on the chemistry of
carbohydrate metabolism and muscle contraction and was the first
to discover and link together all the steps involved in the
conversion of glycogen to lactic acid. Embden studied in
Freiburg, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin, and Zürich under the
direction of noted physiologists of the day—Johannes von Vries,
Franz Hofmeister, Gaule, Paul Ehrlich, and Julius Richard Ewald.
In 1904 he became director of the chemistry laboratory of the
medical clinic at the Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen municipal
hospital. His research built the clinic into the Physiological
Institute by 1907 and into the University Institute for
Vegetative Physiology in 1914, the year in which the University
of Frankfurt am Main was founded. He retained his directorship,
served as a professor at the university, and was rector of the
university from 1925 to 1926. His