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'''Fritz Albert Lipmann''' ([[June 12]] [[1899]] &ndash; [[July 24]] [[1986]]) was a German-American [[biochemist]] and a co-discoverer in 1945 of [[coenzyme A]]. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1953.

Lipmann was born in [[Königsberg]], [[Germany]] to a [[Jewish]] family.

Lipmann studied medicine at the [[University of Königsberg]], [[University of Berlin|Berlin]], and [[University of Munich|Munich]], graduating in Berlin in 1924. He returned to Königsberg to study chemistry under Professor [[Hans Meerwein]]. In 1926 he joined [[Otto Meyerhof]] at the [[Kaiser Wilhelm Institute]], Berlin, for his Ph.D. thesis. After that he followed Meyerhof to [[Heidelberg]] to the [[Max Planck Institute for Medical Research|Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research]].

From 1939 lived and worked in the [[USA]]. From 1949 to [[1957]] he was professor of [[biochemistry|biological chemistry]] at [[Harvard Medical School]]. From 1957 onwards, he taught and conducted research at [[Rockefeller University]], [[New York, New York|New York City]]. He was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1966.

==External links==
*[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1953/lipmann-bio.html Nobel Prize biography]
*[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lipmann.html jewish virtual library biography]
*[http://www.fli-leibniz.de/index_en.php Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)]


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