The first biochemist to enter the field was Karl Heinrich Ritthausen, a student of Justus von Liebig. Thomas Burr Osborne continued what Ritthausen started and published The Vegetable Proteins in 1909.
The pioneer of biochemistry was Karl Heinrich Ritthausen, a student of Justus von Liebig. Thomas Burr Osborne continued Ritthausen's work and published "The Vegetable Proteins" in 1909.