Awards & Winners

Fritz Albert Lipmann

Date of Birth 12-June-1899
Place of Birth Königsberg
(East Prussia, Germany)
Nationality United States of America, Germany
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Fritz Albert Lipmann, ForMemRS was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.

Awards by Fritz Albert Lipmann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Fritz Albert Lipmann.

1966


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For original discoveries of molecular mechanisms for the transfer and transformation of energy in living cells, and for fundamental contributions to the conceptual structure of modern biochemistry.)

1953


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism.)