Fritz Albert Lipmann

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Fritz Albert Lipmann

The Rockefeller University

Fritz Albert Lipmann (German pronunciation:

Hans Adolf Krebs).[1]

Early life and education

Lipmann was born in

Jewish family. His parents were Gertrud (Lachmanski) and Leopold Lipmann, an attorney.[2]

Lipmann studied medicine at the

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Dahlem, Berlin, for his doctoral thesis.[3] After that he followed Meyerhof to Heidelberg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research
.

Career

From 1939 on, Lipmann lived and worked in the United States. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry,

New York City
.

In 1953, Lipmann received one half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism." The other half of the award was won by

Hans Adolf Krebs.[4] Lipmann was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1966. He would try to dive further into his discovery by finding a variant of co-enzyme A, now known as Pantethine. He was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[5] the United States National Academy of Sciences,[6] and the American Philosophical Society.[7]

Lipmann introduced the specific squiggle designation (~) to indicate high energy-rich phosphate in energy-rich biomolecules like ATP in his essay "Metabolic Generation and Utilization of Phosphate Bond Energy."[8] Of his work, he said "that in the field of biosynthesis we have a rare example of progress leading to simplification."[9]

Personal life

Lipmann with wife in Stockholm in 1953

In 1931, Lipmann married Elfreda M. Hall. They had one son.[2] Lipmann died in New York in 1986.The photo shows Mary Soames, not Elfreda Hall Lipmann[10] His widow died in 2008 at the age of 101.

See also

References

  1. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0088
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  2. ^ a b "Fritz Lipmann – Biographical". Nobel Prize.
  3. ISBN 9783112316269
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  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  5. ^ "Fritz Albert Lipmann". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  6. ^ "Fritz Lipmann". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  7. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  8. ^ "Fritz Lipmann Facts". biography.yourdictionary.com. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  9. ^ The Rockefeller University (January 1, 1950). "Fritz Lipmann, 1948". Harvey Society Lectures.
  10. ^ FRITZ A. LIPMAN, BIOCHEMIST, DIES. New York Times (August 16, 1986)

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