Efraim Racker
Efraim Racker · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
1913, Nowy Sacz, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) — 1991, Syracuse, New York, United States
Austria · United Kingdom · United States
Efraim Racker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biochemist who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
Racker, a Jewish biochemist born in Galicia who fled Nazi Europe by way of Vienna and Britain to the United States, elucidated how cells make energy. He reconstituted the mitochondrial ATP synthase from purified parts, proving Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory that a proton gradient drives ATP production. Working at Cornell, his reconstitution methods became a cornerstone of bioenergetics.
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Biochemist who reconstituted and elucidated the enzyme that synthesizes ATP.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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