Fritz Lipmann
Fritz Lipmann · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for discovering coenzyme A and its role in metabolism.
1899, Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) — 1986, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Germany · United States
Fritz Lipmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for discovering coenzyme A and its role in metabolism.
Born into a Jewish family in Königsberg, Lipmann fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and settled in the United States. He discovered coenzyme A, a carrier molecule central to metabolism, and clarified how cells store and transfer energy through high-energy phosphate bonds — the currency of ATP. For this he shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Hans Krebs. He worked for many years at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Rockefeller Institute.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for discovering coenzyme A and its role in metabolism.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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