| var s_account="msnportalencarta"; Print Fritz Albert Lipmann Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Fritz Albert Lipmann Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986), German American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner who helped clarify the biochemical processes by which organisms produce and use energy. In particular, he discovered an essential substanceâone of the so-called coenzymesâthat helps living cells derive energy from carbohydrates, fats, and amino acids. Lipmann's work led to the 1953 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, which he shared with German biochemist Sir Hans Krebs. Born in K¶nigsberg, the capital of East Prussia (now known as Kaliningrad, Russia), Lipmann studied medicine at the University of K¶nigsberg in 1917 and later at the University of Berlin in Germany, from which he received his medical degree in 1922. Deciding to concentrate on biochemical research instead of medicine, Lipmann studied chemistry in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as well as in Berlin, receiving a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Berlin in 1927. In 1939, just before World War II broke out, Lipmann moved to the United States and a research post at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City, where he had spent a yearlong fellowship earlier in the decade. Subsequently, Lipmann was affiliated with the Cornell University Medical School in New York (1939-1941) and later with the Harvard Medical School (1941-1957). In 1957 he returned to Rockefeller as professor of biochemistry. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. | |
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