Lipmann, Fritz Albert

Lipmann, Fritz Albert (1899-1986) German/Ameri-can Biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann was born on June 12, 1899, at Koenigsberg, Germany, to Leopold Lipmann and his wife Gertrud Lachmanski. 

Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986), a biochemist, is responsible for discovering coenzyme A and cofactor A (CoA, where A stands for acetylation ) in 1947. He shared the 1953 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Hans Krebs. 

The German-American biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986) had discovered Coenzyme A in 1948, while working at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1951, Lynen succeeded at the University of Munich in the isolation of acetyl- Coenzyme A, (acetyl-CoA, the activated form of acetic acid) from yeast cells. Karl Folkers at Merck Sharp Dohme recognised in 1956 mevalonic acid as a critical unit in the terpene biosynthesis, while Lynen documented its formation from three acetyl-CoA moieties and the further route to fatty acids and terpenoids. Recently, another non-mevalonate pathway to terpe-nes (Rohmer pathway) has been discovered, which is not present in humans. 

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