1878-1976. German biochemist who in 1923
devised a manometer (pressure gauge)
sensitive enough to measure oxygen uptake of
respiring tissue. By measuring the rate that
cells absorb oxygen under differing
conditions, he was able to show that enzymes
called cytochromes enable cells to process
oxygen. Nobel Prize for Medicine 1931.
Warburg also demonstrated that cancerous
cells absorb less oxygen than normal cells.