David E. Green

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David Ezra Green (born August 5, 1910 in New York City , † July 8, 1983 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American biochemist .

Life

David Ezra Green was born on August 5, 1910 in Brooklyn , New York City. He attended public schools in Brooklyn and began studying medicine at New York University in 1928 . After two years he switched to biology and obtained his master’s degree in 1932 . He then went to England at the University of Cambridge , where he 1934 Malcolm Dixon with the work The Application of oxidation-reduction potential to Biological Systems doctorate ; Green stayed in Cambridge until 1940.

After returning to the United States, he went to Harvard Medical School for a year and, in late 1941, moved to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Until 1948 he was mainly concerned with the isolation of enzymes and the research of the enzymatic oxidation of amino acids and pyruvic acid and later also with multi-enzyme complexes . In 1948 Green went to the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he founded the Institute for Enzyme Research , where he served as director until his death in 1983. His research focused on β-oxidation , fatty acid synthesis and flavoproteins as well as the respiratory chain and the structure and function of the mitochondria .

David Ezra Green married Doris Cribb in Cambridge in 1936, with whom he had two daughters. Older daughter Rowena Green Matthews also became a biochemist and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan . The younger daughter Pamela Green Baldwin did not pursue an academic career, her daughter Tammy Baldwin has been a US Senator from Wisconsin since 2013 .

Awards

Works

  • Reconstruction of the Chemical Events in Living Cells. In: Joseph Needham, David E. Green (Eds.): Perspectives in Biochemistry. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1937.
  • Mechanisms of biological oxidations. The University Press, Cambridge 1940.
  • Enzymes and Trace Substances. In: FF Nord, CH Werkman (Ed.): Advances in Enzymology. Vol. 1. Interscience, New York 1941.
  • The Cyclophorase System. In: John T. Edsall (Eds.): Enzymes and enzyme systems. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1951.
  • The Mitochondrial Electron Transfer System. In: Marcel Florkin, Elmer H. Stotz (Eds.): Comprehensive biochemistry. Vol. 14. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1966.
  • With Harold Baum: Energy and the mitochondrion. Academic Press, New York 1970.

literature

Web links

  • William Bechtel: Green, David Ezra. Encyclopedia.com, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Beinert et al .: DAVID EZRA GREEN 1910–1983. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 84, 2003, pp. 112-145, here pp. 114-116.
  2. ↑ Helmut Beinert et al .: DAVID EZRA GREEN 1910–1983. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 84, 2003, pp. 112-145, here pp. 116-120.
  3. ↑ Helmut Beinert et al .: DAVID EZRA GREEN 1910–1983. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 84, 2003, pp. 112-145, here p. 121.
  4. ^ Profiles: Rowena G Matthews. University of Michigan, accessed July 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Helmut Beinert et al .: DAVID EZRA GREEN 1910–1983. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 84, 2003, pp. 112-145, here p. 116 and 138.
personal data
SURNAME Green, David E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, David Ezra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1983
Place of death Madison , Wisconsin