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Crystallization of Whale Myoglobin

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ALTHOUGH the spectroscopic differences between blood and muscle hæmoglobin were first observed by Mörner1 in 1897, it was not until 1932 that Theorell2 succeeded in crystallizing myoglobin from horse-heart muscle.

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KEILIN, J., SCHMID, K. Crystallization of Whale Myoglobin. Nature 162, 496–497 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162496b0

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