Edmond Fischer
Edmond Fischer · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
1920, Shanghai, China — 2021, Seattle, Washington, United States
China · Switzerland · United States
Edmond Fischer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
Fischer, with Edwin Krebs, discovered reversible protein phosphorylation — the chemical on/off switch that regulates countless processes inside living cells — and shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in Shanghai and educated in Switzerland, he spent his long career at the University of Washington in Seattle and lived to age 101. His father was Jewish.
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Awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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