Felix Haurowitz
Felix Michael Haurowitz (March 1, 1896, Prague – December 2, 1987, Bloomington, Indiana) was a Czech-American physician and biochemist.
Biography
Haurowitz spoke German as his native language but also spoke fluent Czech from early childhood. During his secondary education in a
In Prague, Haurowitz introduced courses on biophysical chemistry and recent advances in biochemistry.In 1930 he was appointed
In the 1930s and early 1940s, Felix Haurowitz and Friedrich Breinl (1888–1936), as well as other scientists including Jerome Alexander, Stuart Mudd, William Whiteman Carlton Topley, and, most notably, Linus Pauling, proposed variants of the now-discredited template theory of antibody formation.[5][6][7]
In 1938 Haurowitz was working at Copenhagen's Carlsberg Laboratory at the invitation of the Danish biochemist Albert Fischer, when the Munich Agreement was made. Haurowitz was alarmed by the news, and returned to Prague to be with his wife and their two children. He was briefly mobilized as an M.D. in the Czech army but was demobilized when Czechoslovakia ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. He with his wife and their two children fled to Istanbul. At Istanbul University, he headed the department of biological chemistry and was a professor from 1939 to 1948. By the end of his second year at Istanbul University, he lectured and gave examinations in Turkish.[1] While in Istanbul, he served as a conduit for many people under Nazi-occupation and their contacts in Allied countries.[8]
In 1946 Gina Haurowitz with the children, Alice (born 1929) and Martin (born 1931), moved to the United States. However, Felix Haurowitz spent two more years at Istanbul University o fulfill his academic contract, but he did visit his family in 1947. He emigrated in 1948 to the United States and in 1952 became a naturalized citizen. At Indiana University he was a professor of chemistry from 1948 to 1966, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was the author of 11 books and was the author or coauthor of about 350 scientific papers. At Indiana University he was a close friend of Harry G. Day.[1]
Awards and honors
- 1956 – Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1960 – Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 1970 – Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1971 — Award for Distinguished Services to Immunology, given by the International Union of Immunological Societies at the First International Congress of Immunology, Washington, D.C.[1][9]
- 1973 – Doctor of Medicine (honorary) from the University of Istanbul
- 1974 – Doctor of Philosophy (honorary) from Indiana University
- 1975 – Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Selected publications
Articles
- Haurowitz, Felix; Astrup, Tage (1939). "Ultra-violet Absorption of Genuine and Hydrolysed Protein". Nature. 143 (3612): 118–119. S2CID 4078416.
- Haurowitz, F.; Crampton, C. F. (1952). "The fate in rabbits of intravenously injected I131-iodoovalbumin". The Journal of Immunology. 68 (1): 73–85. S2CID 43864957.
- Würz, Hannelore; Haurowitz, Felix (1961). "Changes in the Optical Rotation of Proteins after Cleavage of the Disulfide Bonds1,2". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83 (2): 280–283. .
Books
- Biochemie des Menschen und der Tiere seit 1914 (1925)
- Fortschritte der Biochemie (1932)
- Chemistry and Biology of Proteins (1949); pbk edition 1963 ASIN B000R0BU8Y
- Immunochemistry and the Biosynthesis of Antibodies (1950)
- Biochemistry: an Introductory Textbook. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1955. ASIN B00JCVDKM8
- Progress in Biochemistry since 1949. S. Karger. 1958. ISBN 978-3805508711; pbk, 358 pages)
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References
- ^ a b c d e f Putnam, F. W. (1994). "Felix Haurowitz-March 1, 1896-December 2, 1987" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 64: 135–163.
- ISBN 9781421418018.
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- ISBN 9780935702569.
- ISBN 9780521574433.
- S2CID 244250229.
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- ISBN 9781955835350.
- ^ "Felix Haurowitz". University Honors and Awards, Indiana University.
External links
- "Haurowitz mss., 1920-1985". Online Archives at Indiana University.
- Literature by and about Felix Haurowitz in the German National Library catalogue
- Alois Kernbauer: Felix Haurowitz und Zdenko Stary. Zwei aus Altösterreich stammende Biochemiker von Weltrang und deren Wirken an der deutschen Universität in Prag, in der Türkei und in den USA. In: Türk Tip Tarihi Yilligi. Acta Turcica Historiae Medicinae IV: Verhandlungen des Symposions über die Universitätsreform von Atatürk und die Medizin zu dieser Zeit. 25. Oktober 1996. edited Arslan Terzioglu & Erwin Lucius, Istanbul 1997, pp. 59–67.
- Erinnerungsbild Felix Haurowitz. Die Proteine und Immunglobuline des Bluts[ISSN 0947-0867pp. 312–316
- Obituary in New York Times
- "Felix Haurowitz". Chemistry Tree.