Historedia
Person

Anselme Payen

Events
1
Episodes
1
Years
1833

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Anselme Payen, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Anselme Payen discovers diastase, the first enzyme

    1833

    Role: Chemist who discovered diastase

    1. 1833 · French sugar factoryIsolation of Diastase

      Payen and Persoz extracted diastase from malt solution at a French sugar factory in 1833, identifying it as the first enzyme.

Sources

  1. Anselme Payen Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-29
  2. Diastase Wikipedia, revision of 2024-12-16