Fritz Albert Lipmann

Fritz Albert Lipmann, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1899-06-12 in Koenigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

Gender: male

Field: German-American biochemist

Biography

Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953

Awarded on: 1953-10-22

"for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA, USA
  • Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, MA, USA
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