Max Bergmann
Max Bergmann · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who pioneered the chemistry of proteins and peptide synthesis.
1886, Fürth, Germany — 1944, New York City, United States
Germany · United States
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Max Bergmann was a biochemist who pioneered the chemistry of proteins and peptide synthesis, developing methods (with Leonidas Zervas) for protecting amino acids that made controlled peptide synthesis possible. A student of Emil Fischer, he was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany and continued his work at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. He was Jewish.
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Biochemist who pioneered the chemistry of proteins and peptide synthesis.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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