Albert L. Lehninger

Albert Lester Lehninger ( born February 17, 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, † March 4, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American biochemist.

Life

Lehninger studied at Wesleyan University in Middleton Biochemistry ( BA 1939) and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in John Edgar jokes man. MS 1940, Ph.D. 1942. 1945 he became Assistant Professor in 1949 Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago.

From 1952 to 1978 he was Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (Maryland). Teaching and research periods from 1951 to 1952 in Frankfurt am Main and Cambridge as well as in 1964 in Rome, Padua and Göttingen.

Discovered 1948-1950 together with Eugene Patrick Kennedy that takes place in the mitochondria in eukaryotes the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the fatty acid oxidation and oxidative phosphorylation. This clarified the two main stages of energy in living organisms.

1948 Lehninger was awarded the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, 1986 with the Passano Award.