Ruth Benesch
Ruth Benesch · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who, with Reinhold Benesch, revealed the control of hemoglobin oxygen transport
1925, Paris, France — 2000, New York City, United States
Germany · United Kingdom · United States
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Ruth Benesch was an American biochemist who, in a decades-long collaboration with her husband Reinhold Benesch at Columbia University, discovered in 1967 that 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate regulates how hemoglobin releases oxygen to the body's tissues, a landmark in understanding oxygen transport in the blood. Born to a Jewish family, she escaped Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport, fleeing from Berlin to England in 1939.
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Biochemist who, with Reinhold Benesch, revealed the control of hemoglobin oxygen transport
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