An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

LIPPMANN, Fritz Albert

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Metabolic generation and utilization of phosphate bond energy.

Advances in Enzymology, 1, 99-162, 1941.

Discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. This discovery illuminated “the process by which cells make available the energy to drive their manufacturing processes” (Judson, p. 245). Lipmann shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology. In his Nobel Lecture (1953) he spoke “very tentatively” of the first clues that “may foreshadow” extension of his concept to proteins and nucleic acids.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY