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Origin of the Word ‘Protein’

Nature volume 168, page 244 (1951) Cite this article

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IN an address to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences on “The Place of Berzelius in the History of Chemistry” and in the Berzelius Memorial Lecture to the Royal Society, I claimed for Berzelius the authorship of the word ‘protein’. This claim was based on the following passages in a letter to Mulder, the Dutch chemist, dated July 10, 1838:

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HARTLEY, H. Origin of the Word ‘Protein’. Nature 168, 244 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168244a0

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