Earl Nightingale tells us of...
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Earl Nightingale tells us of a meeting in Berlin between a great English physiologist and a great German physiologist. The German, Warburg, was working on the enzymes in cells which make it possible for them to use oxygen and give off carbon dioxide and so get the energy to support their activity. He almost had the respiratory enzyme, as it has come to be called, but had not quite been able to pin it down chemically.
The Englishman, Hill, mentioned an observation just reported at the Physiological Society in England, that light can break up a combination of hemoglobin and carbon monoxide. This gave the clue. Wanburg spent that night in the laboratory, blocking the respiration of yeast in the presence of carbon monoxide and restoring it by strong illumination. The next morning he sent off the paper which brought him the Nobel Prize. His insight and idea were clearly sparked by the communication from another mind. He made an important discovery and deserved his prize, but he probably could not have accomplished it by himself.
--From: This Is Earl Nightingale, by Earl Nightingale, (Doubleday & Company, 1969), pp. 124-125.
-- Prescott
The Englishman, Hill, mentioned an observation just reported at the Physiological Society in England, that light can break up a combination of hemoglobin and carbon monoxide. This gave the clue. Wanburg spent that night in the laboratory, blocking the respiration of yeast in the presence of carbon monoxide and restoring it by strong illumination. The next morning he sent off the paper which brought him the Nobel Prize. His insight and idea were clearly sparked by the communication from another mind. He made an important discovery and deserved his prize, but he probably could not have accomplished it by himself.
--From: This Is Earl Nightingale, by Earl Nightingale, (Doubleday & Company, 1969), pp. 124-125.
-- Prescott
