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Fritz Lipmann – Biographical
Biographical
Fritz Albert Lipmann was born on June 12th, 1899, at Koenigsberg, Germany. He was the son of Leopold Lipmann and his wife Gertrud Lachmanski. Lipmann was educated, during the years 1917-1922, at the Universities of Koenigsberg, Berlin, and Munich, where he studied medicine. He took his M.D. degree in 1924 at Berlin. He was, during…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Karolinska Institutet has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Professor Hans Adolf Krebs and Professor Fritz Lipmann. This is an acknowledgement of fast and significant…
moreSpeed read: Connecting on a Grand Scale
Speed read
What links natural products like rubber and cellulose with artificial plastics is that they are made up from extraordinarily large molecules. The idea of how these molecules originate or are formed was believed to be set in stone, until Hermann Staudinger provided an audacious concept that in time helped to unravel their structural secrets. Staudinger’s…
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