Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne was a German physiologist. Born in Hamburg, he is best known today for coining the word enzyme in 1878. Wikipedia
Born: March 28, 1837, Hamburg, Germany
Died: June 10, 1900 (age 63 years), Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality: German
Children: Else Gottlieb
Award: Fellow of the Royal Society (1892)
Parents: Julius Ferdinand Kühne
Doctoral students: Russell Chittenden