Otto Heinrich Warburg

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Otto Heinrich Warburg (October 8, 1883 – August 1, 1970) was a German physiologist and medical doctor. He was director (1931–1953) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now Max Planck Institute) for cell physiology at Berlin. He investigated the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells, particularly cancer cells. For his discovery of the nature and the mode of action of (Warburg's) yellow enzyme, he won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He edited The Metabolism of Tumours (tr. 1931) and wrote New Methods of Cell Physiology (1962).

He was the first to demonstrate that cancer develops in cells with a low concentration of oxygen.

Also wrote The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer which he presented in lecture at the meeting of the Nobel-Laureates on June 30, 1966 at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany. In the speech Warburg acquainted evidence proving anaerobiosis to be a primary cause of cancerous cells.

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