Max Bergmann
Max Bergmann ( born February 12, 1886 in Fuerth, † November 7, 1944 in New York ) was a German - American scientists.
Life
Max Bergmann was born as the seventh child of the coal wholesalers - spouses Salomon and Rosalie Bergmann. After graduating from high school, he studied first Fürth biology at the University of Munich and then turned to organic chemistry, with lectures Adolf von Baeyer reinforced his interest in the subject. In 1907 he moved to the continuation of the chemistry degree to Berlin, where Emil Fischer, a student of Baeyer taught, and graduated in 1911 with a doctorate on acyl (poly ) sulfides with Ignaz from Bloch. Fischer became aware of Bergmann and initially took him as an assistant in 1912 as a private assistant. 1921 Bergmann habilitated. In 1920 he was appointed by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the board of the Organic Division of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin- Dahlem ( " Reginal -Oliver Duke Institute " ) and Deputy Director of the Institute. From 1921 he was also an honorary professor as verbeamteter first director of the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in Dresden, which was later established as an institute of the Max Planck Society new. 1922, after the suicide of fisherman in 1919, he gave his to around 1900, reaching autobiography My Life. Written out in the disaster 1918.
The researcher miner is considered a pioneer of applied sciences. He specialized in the deciphering of protein and peptide structures, and also conducted research on their synthesis.
1933, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, Miner was dismissed on the basis of the professional civil service law because of his Jewish origin from his offices. His successor was the chemist Wolfgang Grassmann. Bergmann emigrated to the USA and was at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research active in New York. He was the chief scientist for protein chemistry and was instrumental in that the United States in the field of molecular biology reached a peak position. According to Bergmann proteins are active heritable material of the chromosomes. In his laboratory worked for two future Nobel Prize winner.
Bergmann was married twice: First marriage to Emmy Bergmann, a cousin, and then with Martha Suter, with whom he emigrated to the United States. With Emmy Bergmann, he had a son, Peter Bergmann, who was known as a physicist.
Honors
In 1932, Bergmann was inducted into the Academy Leopoldina scholars.
Since 1980 the Max Bergmann - circle (MBC ) awards for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of peptide chemistry, the Max Bergmann Medal.
In 2002 the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials was founded as a joint research institute of the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research and the Technical University of Dresden, Dresden.