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 his pre-clinical year of medical study, strongly impressed by
what he has called «a dramatic chemistry course» given by Professor
Klinger at Koenigsberg. Later, he took a primer course in biochemistry given
in Berlin by Professor Rona and in 1923 he definitely took up biochemistry,
and held for a time a Fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology, at the University
of Amsterdam, under Professor Ernst Laqueur. Feeling then the need for further
study of chemistry, Lipmann returned to Koenigsberg to study chemistry under
Professor Hans Meerwein, who had then succeeded Professor Klinger. In 1926 he
went as an assistant in Otto Meyerhof's laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute,
Berlin, to prepare a thesis for the degree of Ph.D., Berlin, which he took in
1927. He then went with Meyerhof to Heidelberg, where he did further research
on the biochemical reactions occurring in muscle.
In 1930 Lipmann went back to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin to work
as a research assistant in the laboratory of Albert Fischer, who was interested
in applying biochemical methods to tissue culture. Fischer was then getting
ready to occupy a new Institute in Copenhagen and he asked Lipmann to accompany
him there, which he did in 1932. The years 1931 and 1932, however, he spent
as a Rockefeller Fellow in the laboratory of P. A. Levene at the Rockefeller
Institute in New York, where he identified serine phosphate as the constituent
of phosphoproteins which contains the phosphate.
When he went to Copenhagen in 1932, as Research Associate in the Biological
Institute of the Carlsberg Foundation there, Lipmann became interested in the
metabolism of fibroblasts and this prompted him to investigate the Pasteur effect,
which led to important papers on the mechanism of this reaction and on the part
played by glycolysis in the metabolism of the cells of embryos.
In 1939 Lipmann became Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry,
Cornell Medical School, New York, and in 1941 joined the research staff of the
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, first as a Research Associate in the
Department of Surgery, then heading his own group in the Biochemical Research
Laboratory of the Hospital. In 1949 he became Professor of Biological Chemistry
at Harvard Medical School, Boston. In 1957, he was appointed a Member and Professor
of the Rockefeller Institute, New York, a post which he still holds.
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by the discovery of coenzyme A attracted much attention. He left this post to
explore the chemical nature of some seemingly unusual phosphate derivatives
arising in the process of group activation through phosphoryl transfer from
ATP. Thus, through observations on a phosphorolysis of citrulline, his attention
was drawn to the probability of carbamyl phosphate (CMP) representing the metabolically
active carbamyl donor. The suspicion proved justified, and proof of metabolic
formation and its function, in collaboration with Mary Ellen Jones and Leonard
Spector, was greatly simplified by the latter's discovery of an unexpectedly
simple method of chemical CMP synthesis through condensation of cyanate and
phosphate at room temperature and in excellent yield.
Another unusual phosphate derivative had been indicated through the function
of ATP in sulphate activation. Work with Hilz and Robbins in this area brought
out the existence of a new class of chemical compounds, the mixed anhydrides
between phosphate and sulphate; adenosine-5'-phosphosulphate (APS) and 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulphate
(PAPS) were identified as «active» sulphates. The latter compound,
PAPS, was found in animals and plants to be the common sulphate donor in the
sulphurylation of mono- or poly-saccharides and other sulphate derivatives.
Recently, most of his attention has returned to development of the biological
mechanism of peptide and protein synthesis. At present, this is what has become
his major interest.
Lipmann is a member of several learned societies in the U.S.A., the Faraday
Society, and the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and is a Foreign Member of
the Royal Society of England. He holds honorary degrees of the Universities
of Marseilles, Chicago and Chile, and is Doctor of Humane Letters of Brandeis
University. In 1931, he married Elfreda M. Hall, and they have one son, Steven.
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Fritz Lipmann died on July 24, 1986.