Albert Lester Lehninger

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Albert Lester Lehninger (born February 17, 1917 in Bridgeport , Connecticut , † March 4, 1986 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American biochemist.

Life

Lehninger studied biochemistry (BA 1939) at Wesleyan University in Middleton and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with Edgar John Witzemann . MS 1940, Ph.D. 1942. In 1945 he became Ass. Prof., 1949 Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago .

From 1952 to 1978 he was Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (Maryland). He had teaching and research stays in Frankfurt am Main and Cambridge from 1951 to 1952 and in 1964 in Rome , Padua and Göttingen .

Between 1948 and 1950, together with Eugene Patrick Kennedy , he discovered that the citrate cycle , fatty acid oxidation and oxidative phosphorylation take place in the mitochondria of eukaryotes . This clarified the two essential stages of energy generation in living organisms.

In 1948 Lehninger received the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry , and in 1986 the Passano Award . Lehninger was the main author of several textbooks on biochemistry, which had numerous editions in different editions. In 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences , in 1970 to the American Philosophical Society and in 1973 a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications / textbooks

  • with David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox: Principles of Biochemistry. 2nd Edition. Study edition. Spektrum, Akad. Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / Oxford 1998, ISBN 3-8274-0325-1 .
  • David Nelson, Michael Cox: Lehninger Biochemie: with 131 tables. 4th, completely revised and exp. Edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-68637-8 .
  • Biochemistry. 2., rework. u. exp. Edition. 4. Reprint. VCH, Weinheim / New York / Cambridge / Basel 1987, ISBN 3-527-25688-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ASBMB Past Presidents . American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ Member History: Albert L. Lehninger. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehninger, Albert Lester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgeport , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1986
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland