Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the fixed relationship between oxygen consumption and metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle. Meyerhof was born to Jewish parents in Hildesheim. However, when he was an infant, the family moved to Berlin. It was at Berlin that Meyerhof gained his scientific education. A kidney disease temporarily disrupted his studies but gave him an artistic and intellectual insight that helped him in the later phase of his scientific career. After graduating with an honorary doctorate degree, Meyerhof started his career working in a laboratory at Heidelberg. In 1920, he made the revolutionary discovery that won him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shared the prize with English physiologist, Archibald Vivian Hill who in turn discovered the production of heat in muscles. In his five decades of scientific career, Meyerhof took up many administrative positions. He headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research at Heidelberg from 1929 to 1938. In 1938, he served as the Director of Research at the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique at Paris. In United States, he attained the position of a Research Professor of Physiology Chemistry.