The Carlsberg Research Laboratory is a private scientific research center in Copenhagen, Denmark under the Carlsberg Foundation. It was founded in 1875 by J. C. Jacobsen, the founder of the Carlsberg brewery, with the purpose of advancing biochemical knowledge, especially relating to brewing. It featured a Department of Chemistry and a Department of Physiology. In 1972, the laboratory was renamed the Carlsberg Research Center and was transferred to the brewery.
Overview The Carlsberg Laboratory was known for isolating Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, the species of yeast responsible for lager fermentation, as well as introducing the concept of pH in acid–base chemistry. The Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen introduced the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and basicity of substances. While working at the Carlsberg Laboratory, he studied the effect of ion concentration on proteins, and understood the concentration of hydrogen ions was particularly important. To express the hydronium ion (H3O+) concentration in a solution, he devised a logarithmic scale known as the pH scale.
Directors Name Period Johan Kjeldahl 1876–1900 S. P. L. Sørensen 1901–1938 Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang 1938–1959 Martin Ottesen 1959–1987 Klaus Bock 1988–2006 Jens Ø. Duus 2006–2011 Ole Hindsgaul 2011–2014 Birger Lindberg Møller 2014–present
See also Emil Christian Hansen Kirstine Smith Carsten Olsen Carlsberg J. C. Jacobsen Carlsberg Foundation Søren Anton van der Aa Kühle Morten P. Meldal
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