Zacharias Dische
Zacharias Dische (born February 18, 1895 in Sambor ( Austria-Hungary , today Sambir in Ukraine ), † January 17, 1988 in Englewood (New Jersey) ) was an Austrian-American biochemist.
Life
Dische came from a Jewish merchant family. From 1913 he studied natural sciences at the University of Lemberg , after participating in the First World War, he resumed his studies and moved to Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1921. After short-term work in the hospital, he came to the Physiological Institute of the University of Vienna. There he completed his habilitation. After Austria's "annexation" to National Socialist Germany, he fled to the USA in June 1938 via numerous stations, where he received a visiting scholarship in 1941 at the Department of Biochemistry at Columbia University in New York. From 1943 to 1947 he was a Research Fellow there, then a Research Associate in 1947/1948. Until his retirement in 1963, he held numerous positions at the university. His daughter is the writer Irene Dische .
In 1976 Dische was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
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Dische dealt mainly with the sugar metabolism and its medical-biochemical analysis, in particular with the colorimetric determination of sugars.
The color reaction he discovered between deoxypentoses and diphenylamine bears his name as the Dische reaction .
Cinematic biography
In 1985, in long discussions with the 90-year-old Zacharias Dische, the material for a documentary was shot, which was broadcast under the title "Zacharias" on ZDF in the series "Das kleine Fernsehspiel".
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dische, Zacharias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sambor |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1988 |
| Place of death | Englewood, New Jersey |