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In 1840, at Leipzig University in Germany, the hemoglobin protein that carries oxygen was initially discovered by Hünefeld. In 1851, publishing the articles about diluting red blood cells with a solvent such as pure water (H₂O) or alcohol, Otto Funke, a German physiologist, described growing hemoglobin crystals. A few years later, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, a German physiologist and chemist, investigated the binding of oxygen to erythrocytes as a function of hemoglobin, which is called the process of creating the compound oxyhemoglobin. Obtaining hemoglobin in crystalline form, Hoppe-Seyler discovered that hemoglobin contains iron. <ref> [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/271586/Ernst-Felix-Immanuel-Hoppe-Seyler Ernst Felix Hoppe-Seyler] Encyclopædia Britannica Online </ref> In 1959, using X-ray crystallography, Max Perutz, an Austrian-British molecular biologist, established the molecular structure of hemoglobin and his work helped him win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. <ref> [http://www.answers.com/topic/max-perutz Max Perutz] Answers.com </ref> <ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin#Research_history Hemoglobin] Wikipedia.org </ref>