Famous People with Name Zahn

Theodor Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Theodor Zahn: was a biblical scholar born in Rhineland, Prussia (now Germany). He was professor of Theology at Erlangen, and distinguished for his eminent scholarship in connection with the matter especially of the New Testament canon. He stood at the head of the conservative New Testament scholarship of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1904 and 1908

Helmut Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Helmut Zahn: was a German chemist who is often credited as the first to synthesised Insulin in 1963. His results synthesizing insulin were achieved almost simultaneously with that of Panayotis Katsoyannis at the University of Pittsburgh.[1][2] His work was not honoured by the Nobel prize because in 1958 Frederick Sanger was the first who discovered the chemical structure of Insulin.