A history of research on yeasts 3: Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner and their contemporaries, 1880-1900.
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a "vital principle" than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. (Jacques Loeb 1906 [138] p.22.)
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