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...brightest young graduate researchers at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the mid-20s were Fritz Albert Lipmann and Hans Adolf Krebs. Both took their work in biochemistry with utmost seriousness, but they never discussed the possibility of future fame. They would have been even less likely to do so if they had been able to foresee the course of German politics. Both were Jews...
Soon after the Nazis came to power, Lipmann decided that Germany was no place for him; a year's research assignment in Copenhagen stretched to seven years before he sought safer asylum in the U.S. In Boston, he became Harvard's professor of biological chemistry and head of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krebs was summarily fired from his university post by the Nazis; fortunately he was invited to Cambridge University, where he arrived "with virtually nothing but a sigh of relief and a few books." Later he moved to Sheffield as professor of biochemistry...
...Massachusetts General, Dr. Lipmann did most of his work with an unlikely material: pigeon livers. "You have to follow your nose," he says. "You don't map it out. You try one experiment, then another, and bring some sense into it." This method led him, by 1945, to the isolation of coenzyme A, one of the most important trigger chemicals in the body. Dr. Lipmann has shown that his coenzyme is a factor in the body's production of vital substances such as fatty acids and steroid hormones. Some researchers hope that it may help to track down...
Holder of a Ph.D. in chemistry as well as an M.D., Lipmann came to this country in 1939 from Germany when he was forced to flee Hitler's anti-Semitic purges. After coming to America, he taught at Cornell for a short time, and was awarded an honorary degree in medicine by the University of Chicago...
Final confirmation of his status in the Nobel nominations will come tomorrow. It is unlikely the Academy will alter its choice although it is theoretically possible. Lipmann and Krebs are the only designated laureates. This year's award is worth 170,000 crowns ($31,600), and will be split between...