Gertrude E. Perlmann

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Gertrude E. Perlmann

Gertrude Erika Perlmann (born April 20, 1912 in Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary , † September 9, 1974 in New York City ) was a Czechoslovak-American biochemist .

Life

Gertrude E. Perlmann was born as the daughter of Walter Perlmann and Elise Gibian in 1912 in Reichenberg in Austria-Hungary . She studied from 1931 at the German University in Prague , where she received her doctorate in physics and chemistry in 1936 . Because of her Jewish origins and the threat of annexation by Hitlerite Germany , she subsequently fled from Czechoslovakia to Denmark and worked at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen . With the outbreak of World War II , she emigrated to the United States in 1939 , where she did research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital .

Here she examined proteins in body fluids using the new method of electrophoresis .

Impressed by her work, she brought Lewis G. Longsworth to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City in 1945 . She worked here for almost thirty years until her death in 1974, became an assistant professor in 1957 and rose to professor of biochemistry (1972). The main research focus was the analysis of phosphoproteins and later the structure and function of the proteolytic enzyme pepsin and its precursor pepsinogen . Furthermore she devoted herself to the vitellogenin Phosvitin .

Awards

literature

  • Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, ISBN 978-1438118826 , p. 580 f ( online ).
  • Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415920407 , pp. 1007 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1026.
  2. ^ A b Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, p. 580 f.
  3. ↑ a b Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Ed.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1007 f.
personal data
SURNAME Perlmann, Gertrude E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perlmann, Gertrude Erika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1974
Place of death New York City