Pierre Grabar

Pierre Grabar (* 1898 in Kiev ; † 1986 ) was a French biochemist and immunologist from Russia .

Grabar went to France with his brother André Grabar (who became a well-known Byzantinist) during the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution . He graduated in chemical engineering in 1924 and worked briefly in industry before going into medical research at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1930 on kidney function. In 1938 he became head of the laboratory at the Pasteur Institute , where he was Chef de Service de Chimie microbienne from 1946 to 1960. In 1942 another dissertation followed at the Sorbonne ( ultrafiltration and its applications ). At the Pasteur Institute he was head of an internationally known school for immunochemistry (to which he turned from 1937) and immunology. 1960 to 1968 he was director of the Cancer Research Institute of the CNRS in Villejuif . He then continued his research at the Pasteur Institute.

In 1953 he and the American Curtis Williams , who worked for him, invented immunoelectrophoresis , a combination of electrophoresis and immunological methods.

In 1944 he received the Prix Janssen, 1963 a Gairdner Foundation International Award and 1968 the Prix Jaffé. In 1958 he received the Emil von Behring Prize and in 1977 the Robert Koch Medal . Since 1962 he was a member of the Leopoldina . He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

literature

• Obituary by H. Cleve, Naturwissenschaften, Volume 73, 1986, p. 728
• Grabar An old biologist remembers , Electrophoresis, Volume 3, 1982, p. 1