Fritz Albert Lipmann

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Fritz Albert Lipmann

Fritz Albert Lipmann (June 12 1899 – July 24 1986) was a German-American biochemist

Biochemist

Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms....
and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A

Coenzyme A

Coenzyme A is a coenzyme, notable for its role in the Fatty acid metabolism#Synthesis and Fatty acid metabolism#.CE.B2-Oxidation of fatty acids, and the oxidation of pyruvic acid in the citric acid cycle....
. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
in 1953.

Lipmann was born in Königsberg

Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
to a Jewish family.

Lipmann studied medicine at the University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of K?nigsberg was the university of K?nigsberg, East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 by Albert, Duke of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....
, Berlin, and Munich, graduating in Berlin in 1924.

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Fritz Albert Lipmann (June 12 1899 – July 24 1986) was a German-American biochemist

Biochemist

Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms....
and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A

Coenzyme A

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
, Germany

Germany

University of Königsberg

Hans Meerwein

Hans Meerwein was an Germany Chemistry..His name is still present in the names of several reactions and reagents, for example the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction, the Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement....
. In 1926 he joined Otto Meyerhof at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

The Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft is a Germany entity formally known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der Wissenschaften e.V. ....
, Berlin, for his Ph.D. thesis. After that he followed Meyerhof to Heidelberg

Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg is a facility of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the medical basic research. Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof , Richard Kuhn , Walther Bothe , Andr? Michel Lwoff , Rudolf M??bauer and Bert Sakmann ....
.

From 1939 lived and worked in the USA. From 1949 to 1957 he was professor of biological chemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University and currently the #1 medical school in America, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report....
. From 1957 onwards, he taught and conducted research at Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University

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, New York City. He was awarded the National Medal of Science

National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral science and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics....
in 1966.

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