152 years ago today, on February 9, 1873 (January 12, 1873 lunar calendar), German chemist Oyler Scherpin was born. On February 9, 1873, German chemist Oyler Scherpin was born in Augsburg, Bavaria. Starting with enzymes, Scherpin studied medical and genetic problems and found that the combination of enzyme inhibitors and enzymes can form very stable complexes, which won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 together with Arthur Hatton.