This first section of the history of the Department of Biochemistry covers the period from the late nineteenth century until the opening of the Sir William Dunn Institute, now known as the Hopkins Building, in 1924.
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This first section of the history of the Department of Biochemistry covers the period from the late nineteenth century until the opening of the Sir William Dunn Institute, now known as the Hopkins Building, in 1924.
W.M. Fletcher with his apparatus for studying respiration of isolated muscles, c1900.
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