Background
Gottschalk, Alfred was born on April 22, 1894 in Aachen, Germany. Son of Ben Carl and Rosa (Kahn) Gottschalk.
Gottschalk, Alfred was born on April 22, 1894 in Aachen, Germany. Son of Ben Carl and Rosa (Kahn) Gottschalk.
Student of University Munich (Germany), 1912-1913, U. Freiburg (Germany), 1913. Doctor of Medicine, University Bonn (Germany), 1920. Postgraduate Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute Biochemistry, Berlin, Germany, 1921-1926.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Muenster (Germany).
During his career he wrote 216 research papers and reviews, and four books Gottschalk left the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in 1926 to become Director of the Biochemical Department at the General Hospital in Szczecin. He left the hospital in 1934 following upheaval in Nazi Germany and entered private practice, left for England in the spring of 1939, and on to Melbourne in July.
He was offered a position as a biochemist by Charles Kellaway Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, he also taught biochemistry and organic chemistry at the Melbourne Technical College and later at the University of Melbourne.
In 1945 he became a naturalized British citizen. At the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Gottschalk collaborated with Frank Macfarlane Burnet.
They discovered neuraminidase. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1954.
In 1959 he was invited by Frank Fenner to research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.
He left Canberra for Germany in 1963, where he was appointed Guest-Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen. He continued active research and for his contributions to science was elected to the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1967 and received honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne (Doctor of Science) and the University of Münster (Doctor of Medicine). The Gottschalk Medal for medical research awarded by the Australian Academy of Science is named in his honour.
Fellow Royal Institute Chemistry, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (H.G. Smith Memorial medal 1952), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Australian Academy Science, Max Planck Institute (foreign science.
Married Elizabeth Orgler, August 2, 1923.