Everything about Max Bergmann totally explained
Max Bergmann (1886-1944) was a
Jewish-
German biochemist. He used first time the
Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
Life and Work
Bergmann was born in
Fürth,
Bavaria,
Germany on the
February 12,
1886.
After he received his Ph.D, in 1911, he became assistant of
Hermann Emil Fischer at the
University of Berlin, where he stayed until the suicide of Fischer in 1919.
Bergmann was the first director of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in
Dresden, which had been created in 1921 and upon which the
Max-Planck-Institute was based. He developed the
Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method for the synthesis of polypeptides.
His is considered a pioneer of
applied sciences. He specialized in decoding
protein and
peptide structures. He also researched their synthesis.
Bergmann left Germany and his institute in the year 1933 and was active thereafter at
Rockefeller University in
New York. There he was the main scientist for protein chemistry and contributed considerably to the fact that the United States reached a top position in the area of
molecular biology. In his famous laboratory worked two eventual
Nobel Prize winners (
William Howard Stein and
Stanford Moore).
Bergamann died in the
Mount Sinai Hospital,
New York, on
November 7,
1944.
In the year 2002 in Dresden, the Max Bergmann Center was created.
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