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Fritz Albert Lipmann (German pronunciation: [fʁɪt͡s ˈalbɛʁt ˈlɪpˌman] ⓘ; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (shared with Hans Adolf Krebs ).
Lipmann earned an M.D. degree (1924) and a Ph.D. degree (1927) from the University of Berlin. He conducted research in the laboratory of the biochemist Otto Meyerhof at the University of Heidelberg (1927–30) and then did research at the Biological Institute of the Carlsberg Foundation (Carlsbergfondets Biologiske Institut), Copenhagen (1932 ...
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After completing his Ph.D. in 1929, Lipmann joined Albert Fischer'slaboratory where he worked on using metabolism as a method to measure cellgrowth. Fischer was getting ready to move to a new laboratory at theBiological Institute of the Carlsberg Foundation in Copenhagen and askedLipmann to accompany him there, which he did in 1932.
- Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill
- 2005
After receiving his medical degree, he changed his interest to biochemistry. He worked under the direction of Otto Meyerhof (1884–1951) at the University of Berlin and received a PhD degree in 1927.
- Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle
- 2000
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953. Born: 12 June 1899, Koenigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) Died: 24 July 1986, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of co-enzyme A and ...
FRITZ ALBERT LIPMANN. June 12, 1899–July 24, 1986. BY WILLIAM P. JENCKS AND. RICHARD V. WOLFENDEN. F RITZ LIPMANN WAS LARGELY responsible for identifying and characterizing the connection between metabolism and the energetics of living systems that makes life possible. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION.
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After attending the university in his native city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia), Lipmann studied in Berlin, where he obtained his MD in 1922 and his doctorate in 1927.
