Michel Macheboeuf
Michel-Alexandre Macheboeuf (born October 19, 1900 in Châtelguyon near Clermont-Ferrand , † August 20, 1953 in Paris ) was a French biochemist and doctor.
Macheboeuf went to school in Clermont-Ferrand and studied medicine in Clermont-Ferrand and Paris. In 1919 he became an employee of Gabriel Bertrand in the laboratory for biochemistry at the Pasteur Institute . In 1925/26 he was on a Rockefeller fellowship in the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, where he became friends with Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang . In 1927 he received his doctorate in medicine and in 1928 in natural sciences. In 1942 he became head of the Pasteur Institute's biochemistry laboratory. In this function he also taught at the Sorbonne, was adjunct professor in Lille in 1937 and in Bordeaux in 1937 and in 1950 he became professor at the Sorbonne. During the Second World War he had connections with the Resistance and took care of the wounded in the fighting for Paris.
Macheboeuf discovered in the late 1920s that the actually insoluble lipids are transported in lipid-protein complexes in the blood plasma (he called cenapses). In the 1930s he also worked on the biochemistry of tuberculosis pathogens at the Pasteur Institute. After the war, he worked on immunochemistry.
In 1926 he married Simone Bezou and had three daughters with her.
In 1953 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences .
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 287
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Macheboeuf, Michel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Macheboeuf, Michel-Alexandre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtelguyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1953 |
| Place of death | Paris |