3-587: The Carlsberg Research Laboratory is a private scientific research center in Copenhagen , Denmark under the Carlsberg Foundation . It was founded in 1875 by J. C. Jacobsen , the founder of the Carlsberg brewery, with the purpose of advancing biochemical knowledge, especially relating to brewing . It featured a Department of Chemistry and a Department of Physiology. In 1972, the laboratory
6-546: The Carlsberg Laboratory, he studied the effect of ion concentration on proteins, and understood the concentration of hydrogen ions was particularly important. To express the hydronium ion (H 3 O) concentration in a solution , he devised a logarithmic scale known as the pH scale . 55°39′57″N 12°31′42″E / 55.6658°N 12.5283°E / 55.6658; 12.5283 Copenhagen Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-544: Was renamed the Carlsberg Research Center and was transferred to the brewery. The Carlsberg Laboratory was known for isolating Saccharomyces carlsbergensis , the species of yeast responsible for lager fermentation , as well as introducing the concept of pH in acid-base chemistry . The Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen introduced the concept of pH , a scale for measuring acidity and basicity of substances . While working at
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