biochemist No Further a Mystery
The term "biochemistry" was initially applied when Vinzenz Kletzinsky (1826–1882) had his "Compendium der Biochemie" printed in Vienna in 1858; it derived from a combination of biology and chemistry. In 1877, Felix Hoppe-Seyler used the expression (biochemie in German) to be a synonym for physiological chemistry from the foreword to the 1st chall