Assertion: enzyme | /r/HasProperty | diastase
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text: French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme, diastase, in 1833.
text: Some argued that the beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (now called amylase), in 1833 by Anselme Payen, while others considered Eduard Buchner's first demonstration of a complex biochemical process alcoholic fermentation in cell-free extracts in 1897 to be the birth of biochemistry.