Protein Purification
The importance of the Hofmeister series to early protein work cannot be underestimated, since it provided the chief tool for purifying proteins (sulfate precipitation) over the next ~50 years, one that is still in use today. Hofmeister himself may have been the first to crystallize a protein, hen egg-white albumin. Repeated crystallization was a favorite purification technique in the early days of protein science, and was essential for its development.
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