Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929

Arthur Harden

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Prize share: 1/2

Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 was awarded jointly to Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"

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