Barnett Rosenberg
Barnett Rosenberg (born November 16, 1926 in New York City , † August 8, 2009 in Lansing Michigan ) was an American chemist.
Rosenberg studied at Brooklyn College (Bachelor in 1948) and received his doctorate in physics from New York University in 1956 . From 1961 he was at Michigan State University , where he became a professor and retired in 1997.
In 1961 he discovered by chance in an experiment in which he exposed bacteria to an electric field that they no longer divided. He did not find the cause in the electric field, but in the platinum from his electrodes. In 1969 he discovered that they also prevented cell division in tumors. With colleagues he developed the anti-cancer drug cisplatin , which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1978 .
In 1984 he received the Kettering Prize and in 1985 he received the Harvey Prize .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barnett Rosenberg, Loretta Van Camp, Thomas Krigas Inhibition of Cell Division in Escherichia coli by Electrolysis Products from a Platinum Electrode , Nature, Volume 205, 1965, p. 698, abstract
- ↑ But it was already described by the Italian chemist Michele Peyrone (1813–1883) in 1844 as “Peyrones Chloride”
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| SURNAME | Rosenberg, Barnett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2009 |
| Place of death | Lansing |