Legacy
The study of the living organism has more and more led to the view that its smallest independent units morphologically speaking – the cells – also to a certain degree lead an independent life and are the real seats of the vital processes. The cells therefore attract special attention in biological research, and studies which widen our knowledge of the cells to any important extent deserve to be given prominence. Prof. Kossel has chosen to devote himself to this field of research, and it is for his work in this respect that the Nobel Prize has been awarded to him this year. —Nobel Prize Introduction Speech, December 10, 1910Albrecht Kossel is one of the truly great scientists of biochemistry and genetics. By isolating and defining nucleic acid and the nucleobases, he provided the necessary precursors that led to the double-helix model of DNA, devised by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.
The Albrecht Kossel Institute for Neuroregeneration at the University of Rostock is named in his honor.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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