Otto Fritz Meyerhof

Physiologist, born in Hanover, NC Germany. He studied at Heidelberg, and became professor at Kiel (1918–24), director of the physiology department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology (1924–9), and professor at Heidelberg (1930–8). He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the metabolism of muscles. Forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1938, he continued his work in France, and in 1940 fled to America, where he was professor at Pennsylvania University.

Otto Fritz Meyerhof (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951), German-born physician and biochemist.

In 1912, he moved to the University of Kiel, where he became professor in 1918. Fleeing the Nazi regime, he moved to Paris in 1938, then to the U.S. in 1940, where he became a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Meyerhof died in Philadelphia at the age of 67 of a heart attack.