Max Bergmann
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| Max Bergmann | |
| Born | February 12, 1886 Fürth, Germany |
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| Died | November 7, 1944 (aged 58) New York, United States |
| Residence | Germany, United States |
| Nationality | German, American |
| Institutions | Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Emil Fischer |
| Known for | Carboxybenzyl protecting group |
Max Bergmann (1886-1944) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He used first time the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
[edit] Life and Work
Bergmann was born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany on the February 12, 1886.
After he received his Ph.D, in 1911, he became assistant of Hermann Emil Fischer at the University of Berlin, where he stayed until the suicide of Fischer in 1919.
Bergmann was the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in Dresden, which had been created in 1921 and upon which the Max-Planck-Institute was based. He developed the Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method for the synthesis of polypeptides.
His is considered a pioneer of applied sciences. He specialized in decoding protein and peptide structures. He also researched their synthesis.
Bergmann left Germany and his institute in the year 1933 and was active thereafter at Rockefeller University in New York. There he was the main scientist for protein chemistry and contributed considerably to the fact that the United States reached a top position in the area of molecular biology. In his famous laboratory worked two eventual Nobel Prize winners (William Howard Stein and Stanford Moore).
Bergamann died in the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, on November 7, 1944.
In the year 2002 in Dresden, the Max Bergmann Center was created.
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