Background
Perlmann, Gertrude Erika was born on April 20, 1912 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia. Daughter of Walter and Elise (Gibian) Perlmann.
Perlmann, Gertrude Erika was born on April 20, 1912 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia. Daughter of Walter and Elise (Gibian) Perlmann.
She earned a doctorate in chemistry and physics at the German University of Prague in 1936. She fled Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia for Denmark in 1936. She worked at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen until 1939.
She is known for her work in protein chemistry, particularly her work with phosphoproteins and the structure and action of pepsin and pepsinogen. Early At the beginning of World World War II, she emigrated to the United States. She began work in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and then at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
She moved in 1945 to New York City, where she worked as a visiting investigator at the Rockefeller Institute.
Fellow, Biological Laboratory, Carlsberg Foundation Copenhagen, Denmark, 1937-1939. Member American Chemical Society, American Society Biological Chemists, American Biophysics Society British Biology-chemical Society, Harvey Society.