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Abdul Rahman Khan P. M. S. Chauhan Sanjay Batra Dr. Atul Goel Rania Dghaim Reema Gabrani Pradeep Kumar Prajapati Prof. Neha A Patni Haji Akber·AISA Dr. Ankur Harshadbhai Dwivedi PRYAKHIN Oleg Romanovich Ambikesh Mahapatra DOCHINETS Dmitri Ivanovich Kajal Krishna Rajak Kalyan Kumar Das Mahammad Ali Wumanjiang·EILY Soumen Ghosh Subratanath Koner Sujoy Baitalik View MoreEmil Abderhalden (March 9, 1877 – August 5, 1950) was a Romanian biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1920s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigor remains unclear. Abderhalden's drying pistol, used in chemistry, was first described by one of his students in a textbook Abderhalden edited.[1]
Abderhalden is known for a blood test for pregnancy, a test for cystine in urine, and for explaining the Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome, a recessive genetic condition. He did extensive work in the analysis of proteins, polypeptides, and enzymes. His Abwehrfermente ("defensive enzymes") theory stated that immunological challenge will induce production of proteases. This was seemingly "proven" by many collaborators in Europe, although attempts to verify the theory abroad failed.