NOBEL WINNER FRANZ LIPMANN,
PROBED MYSTERIES OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Author: Associated Press
Date: Friday, July 25, 1986
Page: 19
Section: OBITUARY
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Franz Lipmann, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who
provided the basis for understanding the conversion of food into energy, died
yesterday. He was 87.
Mr. Lipmann, who lived in Rhinebeck, N.Y., died at St. Francis Hospital in
Poughkeepsie, said Mark Kaplan, a spokesman for the Rockefeller University.
Mr. Lipmann joined the university in 1957 and became a professor emeritus in
1970. He was still running a lab there and conducting research until shortly
before his death, Kaplan said.
In 1953, Mr. Lipmann and Hans Krebs won the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine for the discovery of Coenzyme A, one of the most important substances
in body metabolization. The substance aids in converting fatty acids,
steroids, amino acids and hemoglobins into energy.
Mr. Lipmann also received the National Medal of Science, the nation's
highest award for scientific achievement, from President Lyndon B. Johnson in
1966.
Born in Koenigsberg, Germany, in 1899, Mr. Lipmann earned an MD in 1924
and a PhD in 1927 at the University of Berlin. He worked at the Carlsberg
Foundation in Copenhagen before coming to the United States, where he joined
the staff at Cornell Medical School in 1939.
Two years later, Mr. Lipmann joined the staff at Massachusetts General
Hospital, and in 1949 became a professor at Harvard Medical School. He first
isolated Coenzyme A in 1945.
Mr. Lipmann, who also became known for lectures and papers, wrote an
autobiography, "Wanderings of a Biochemist," which was published in 1971.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Freda; their son, Stephen; and a
granddaughter. No funeral services are planned, Kaplan said.
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