GK QUESTION#3970
In the year 1925, who extracted lipids from an erythrocyte sample and found that lipid monolayers are good for measuring molecular surface area versus lateral pressure?
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A. Gorter and Grendel
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Gorter and Grendel extracted red-cell lipids and spread them as a monomolecular film in 1925. They compared lipid-film area with cell surface area to infer a lipid bilayer. Film area depends on surface pressure; the experiment used an existing monolayer method rather than inventing all such measurements.