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1971
biochemist university professor
Fritz Lipmann was born on June 12, 1899 in Koenigsberg, Germany, into the family of Leopold and Gertrud (Lachmanski) Lipmann. From 1939 on, he lived and worked in the United States, and in 1944 he became the naturalized citizen of that country.
Lipmann studied medicine at the University of Königsberg in Berlin, graduating with Doctor of Medicine in 1924. In 1926 he joined Otto Meyerhof at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, for his Doctor of Philosophy thesis, which he earned in 1927. After that he followed Meyerhof to Heidelberg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research.
From 1939 to 1941 Fritz was a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry at the Cornell University Medical College in New York. 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 leading his own group in the Biochemical Research Laboratory of the Hospital. From 1949 to 1957 he was a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School. Since 1957 and until his death he taught and conducted research at the Rockefeller University in New York City.
Lipmann’s productive career included 516 publications between 1924 and 1985. His 1944 paper on acetyl phosphate is a citation classic, having been cited in other works more than seven hundred times His work on high-energy phosphate bonds and group transfer discoveries propelled biochemistry to the forefront of physiological research for nearly three decades.
New York Academy of Sciences
Danish Royal Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
American Chemical Society
American Society Microbiology
Biochemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society Biological Chemists
Harvey Society
American Philosophical Society
Fritz's wife described him essentially as a city person. He was a private man who avoided political and social issues.
On June 23, 1931 Fritz married Elfreda M. Hall, with whom he had a son Stephen Hall Lipmann.
