Biography & contributions
Moritz Traube was born on February 12, 1826
Traube was a German chemist (physiological chemistry)
He showed that sugar excretion in the urine of a diabetic patient rose after starch intake but fell after protein consumption
In 1837 Traube discovered that yeast was a living organism
He was the first to define enzymes as specific protein-like compounds
Traube proposed theory of fermentation
In 1864 He produced artificial semipermeable membranes
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