Fritz Albert Lipmann

American Biochemist

Fritz Albert Lipmann was born in Königsberg on June 12th, 1899 and is the American Biochemist. At the age of 87, Fritz Albert Lipmann biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 12, 1899
Nationality
United States, Germany
Place of Birth
Königsberg
Death Date
Jul 24, 1986 (age 87)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Biochemist, Chemist, Physician, University Teacher
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Fritz Albert Lipmann Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Education
University of Königsberg, University of Berlin, University of Munich, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
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Elfreda M. Hall Lipmann (m. 1931)
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Fritz Albert Lipmann Career

From 1939 on, Lipmann lived and worked in the United States. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, New York from 1939 to 1941. He joined the research staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1941, first as a Research Associate in the Department of Surgery, then heading his own group in the Biochemical Research Laboratory of the hospital. From 1949 to 1957 he was professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School. From 1957 onwards, he taught and conducted research at Rockefeller University, 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. 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.

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." Of his work, he said "that in the field of biosynthesis we have a rare example of progress leading to simplification."

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