A. Jons Jacob Berzelius
B. Anselme Payen
C. Walter Bradford Cannon
D. None of these
Submitted by: Fiaz Ahmad Mazari
In 1833 Anselme Payen discovered the first enzyme, diastase, and in 1878 German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne (1837–1900) coined the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον “in leaven”, to describe this process.