KÜHNE, Wilhelm Friedrich (1837 – 1900)

1859

#620

Untersuchungen über Bewegungen und Veränderungen der contraktilen Substanz.

Proof of the coagulability of muscle proteins.

1862

#1269

Ueber die peripherischen Endorgane der motorischen Nerven.

Kühne described the neuromuscular end organ (“Kühne’s spindle”) and introduced the term “telolemma” for the outer covering of its sheath.

1863

#1270

Die Muskelspindeln. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Entwickelung der Muskeln und Nervenfasem.

The best early description of proprioceptive receptors in muscles.

1874 –1877

#1012

Ueber das Trypsin.

Isolation of trypsin.

1876

#700.1

Ueber das Verhalten verschiedener organisirter und sog. ungeformter Fermente (pp.191-193); Trypsin (Enzym des Pankreas) (pp.194-198).

Kühne was one of the people who introduced the term “enzyme”. He wrote, "Um Missverständnisse vorzubeugen und lästige Umschreibungen zu vermeiden schlägt Vortragender vor, die ungeformten oder nicht organisierten Ferm…

1878

#1519

Ueber den Sehpurpur.

Kühne was Professor of Physiology at Amsterdam and Heidelberg. Among his best work is his investigation of visual purple (rhodopsin) which he was first to extract from the retina. Several other papers by him on the sa…

1883

#1016

Ueber die nächsten Spaltungsproducte der Eiweisskörper.

Kühne and Chittenden isolated and named several new substances during their investigation of the products of digestion. See also the same journal, 1884, 20, 11-51; 1886, 22, 409-58; 1889, 25, 358-67.