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 pioneering work in biochemistry was initiated by Karl Heinrich Ritthausen, a student of Justus von Liebig. Thomas Burr Osborne continued this line of research and published "The Vegetable Proteins" in 1909.