Fritz Albert Lipmann

Fritz Albert Lipmann ( born June 12, 1899 in Königsberg, † 24 July 1986 in Poughkeepsie, New York ) was a German - American biochemist.

Life

Lipmann attended the Collegium Fridericianum, studied medicine then, later chemistry and pharmacology in Königsberg, Munich and Berlin. In 1924 he was awarded his doctorate for MD, Dr. phil. 1928th In 1927 he joined Otto Meyerhof at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology in Berlin, 1929 in Heidelberg. 1930/31 in the laboratory Albert Fischer at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute worked for biology, he went then as a Rockefeller scholarship to New York, followed in 1932 Albert Fischer at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, emigrated to the USA in 1939 and became naturalized there in 1944. Lipmann taught at Cornell University School of Medicine in New York and ran from 1941 to 1957, the Biochemical Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1941 he became a lecturer in 1943 and 1949, associate professor of biochemistry at the local Harvard Medical School, and from 1957 to 1969 at The Rockefeller University in New York City.

Lipmann dealt with B vitamins and enzymes and discovered in 1947, the coenzyme A, has developed a novel metabolic theory due to its existence. In 1953 he described together with James Baddiley the structure of coenzyme A. 1969 was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Lipmann discovered that ATP is the main energy carrier in the cell, which he wrote in his professional publication under the title Metabolic Generation and Utilization of Phosphate Bond Energy ( 1941). His autobiography Wanderings of a Biochemist appeared in 1971.

Since 1931, Lipmann was the fashion illustrator Elfriede " Freda " Hall ( 1906-2008 ) married.

Honors

In 1953, Lipmann together with Hans Adolf Krebs received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Since 2005, the Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Jena, is named after him.