Karl Albert Hasselbalch
Deceased Person
1874 – 1962
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Who was Karl Albert Hasselbalch?
Karl Albert Hasselbalch was a physician and chemist. He was a pioneer in the use of pH measurement in medicine, and he described how the affinity of blood for oxygen was dependent on the concentration of carbon dioxide. He was also first to determine the pH of blood. In 1916, he converted the 1908 equation of Lawrence Joseph Henderson to logarithmic form, which is now known as the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.
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- Born
- Nov 1, 1874
Denmark - Education
- University of Copenhagen
- Died
- Sep 19, 1962
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on July 23, 2013
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