Kossel was born in Rostock as the son of Prussian consul Albrecht Kossel and his wife Clara. In 1872, Kossel went to the University of Strassburg[?] to study medicine, where he visited lectures of Anton de Bary, Waldeyer, Kundt, Baeyer[?] and Felix Hoppe-Seyler[?]. He graduated in 1878 at the University of Rostock[?].
Kossel was awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in cell biology, especially proteins and nucleic acids.
Selected Works
- Untersuchungen über die Nukleine und ihre Spaltungsprodukte (Investigations into the nucleins and their cleavage products), 1881
- Die Gewebe des menschlichen Körpers und ihre mikroskopische Untersuchung (The tissues in the human body and their microscopic investigation), 1889-1891
- Leitfaden für medizinisch-chemische Kurse (Textbook for medical-chemical courses), 1888
- Die Probleme der Biochemie (The problems of biochemistry), 1908
- Die Beziehungen der Chemie zur Physiologie (The relationships between chemistry and physiology), 1913