Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and expert on fermentation, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907, announced November 12, 1907. Eduard Buchner, “for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation”. Eduard Buchner: born 1860, Munich, Bavaria (now Germany). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).