Talk:Hanes–Woolf plot

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This page really needs a good picture of a representative plot, but I don't have one on hand.68.82.19.81 00:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Wolff or Woolf?

Which is it? I've seen articles with either Hanes-Wolff or Hanes-Woolf, although more articles refer to Hanes-Woolf but they all talk about the same plot. At my university I've learned it as Hanes-Wolff, but I'm inclinded to think its not Wolff but Woolf. - I'VE SEEN IT CALLED BOTH

It's Hanes-Woolf & not Hanes-Wolff. 'Woolf' refers to Dr. Barnett Woolf - google him. This is clear in view of the following: (a) In his book Enzyme Kinetics (chapter 1), I. Segel connects Woolf to Haldane & Stern (who had translated Haldane's book Enzymes in german): according to Segel, Woolf suggested plotting $[S]/v$ versus $[S]$ to them. & (b) In a letter to Nature (179, 832 (20 April 1957), doi:10.1038/179832b0), Haldane mentions that some graphical methods he described on pp. 119–120 were due to his friend Dr. Barnett Woolf. I have thus removed 'Hanes-Wolff' form the article, as the author of the comment above has failed to mention where s/he has seen this spelling &, additionally, I'd rather not have errors perpetuated through Wikipedia. I invite anyone with access to a copy of the Haldane/Stern book to look up the reference to Dr. Woolf & post a comment here, especially if something does not match. Athenray (talk) 09:13, 8 October 2009 (UTC)