Adrian John Brown

Adrian John Brown, FRS (27 April 1852 – 2 July 1919[1]) was a British Professor of Malting and Brewing at the University of Birmingham and a pioneer in the study of enzyme kinetics.

He attended the local grammar school and then went up to study chemistry at the Royal College of Science in London.

He became private assistant to Dr Russell at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School.

[4] This was the first time enzymes were suggested as separate entities from organisms and talked about in chemical terms.

[6] Similar ideas had been put earlier by German chemist and Nobel laureate Hermann Emil Fischer by comparing substrate and enzyme with a key and a lock.