Recollections of Professor

With Dr. Fischer's long interest in muscle physiology and with his background in Germany, I thought that my personal experiences in Professor Otto Meyerhof's laboratory in Heidelberg, 1931-1932, might be of interest. This laboratory was at that time one of the outstanding centers for research in muscle physiology and chemistry. The laboratory was called the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute fiir Medizinische Forschung. There were several such institutes for research in Germany established before World War I and they retained the name of the Kaiser for some time after this war. The Institute in Heidelberg was divided into four subdivisions; Biochemistry, Physiology, Pathology and Biophysics. The Institute of Biochemistry under Professor Kuhn and Physiology under Professor Meyerhof were very active, the other two were relatively quiet. The Institutes were housed in a modern wellequipped building situated close to the river. Professor Meyerhof's Institute was on two floors of one wing with animal quarters and shops in the basement. At the time when I was there, there were four full time members on the staff, Professor Otto Meyerhof, Professor Karl Lohmann, Dr. Herman Blaschko and Dr. H. Laser. Professor Lohmann was a well trained biochemist noted for his work on adenosinetriphosphate, who later went to Berlin. Dr. Blaschko is now a professor of Pharmacology at Oxford and a Fellow of the