How was Otto Fritz Meyerhof awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

Name: Otto Fritz Meyerhof.
Country: Germany.
Date of Birth: 12 April 1884.
Died: 6 October 1951.
Education: University of Strasbourg, University of Heidelberg, University of Berlin.
Subjects Of Study: Glycolysis.
Known as: Relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace in 1922, for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle.