Kurt Henseleit

Kurt Henseleit
Born1907 (1907)
Died1973 (aged 64–65)
Known forUrea cycle
Krebs–Henseleit solution

Kurt Henseleit (1907–1973) studied medicine in Berlin, where he was born, with final exams 1929 and was beginning in the winter semester 1930/31 a graduate student of and assistant to Hans Krebs in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he got his M.D. Between them they discovered the urea cycle (known also as the Krebs-Henseleit cycle), and developed the Krebs-Henseleit solution.

Later in life he was a physician (Facharzt) in Friedrichshafen.

References

  1. ↑ Frederic Laurence Holmes, Hans Krebs, Volume 1, 1991, p. 264
  2. ↑ Graßhoff, Gerd; May, Michael (2003). "Hans Krebs' and Kurt Henseleit's Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models". In Holmes, Frederic L.; Renn, Jürgen; Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (eds.). Reworking the Bench : Research Notebooks in the History of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 269–294. doi:10.1007/0-306-48152-9_13. ISBN 978-1-4020-1039-2.
  3. ↑ Bailey, Leslie E; Ong, Seok D (1978). "Krebs–Henseleit solution as a physiological buffer in perfused and superfused preparations". Journal of Pharmacological Methods. 1 (2): 171–175. doi:10.1016/0160-5402(78)90022-0.