Max Bergmann and the Rockefeller Institute

As shown, a considerable part of the modern separation methods of amino acids and peptides originated in Max Bergmann s laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute. A different separation technique was introduced in the same institute at the same time by Lyman C. Craig, in the laboratory of J.A. Jacobs. Here, from 1933, he worked on ergot alkaloids developing a lasting interest in separation techniques. The well-known method of extraction of substances from an aqueous into a non-water-miscible phase like chloroform or vice versa was systematically elaborated by him to a multiple extraction and re-extraction procedure, countercurrent distribution [25]. By this method, performed in a specially... 

Early studies in peptide chemistry by Max Bergmann (Plate 3) and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City were discussed in Chap. 3 where the important contributions made by W.H. Stein (Plate 4),... 

Fruton, Joseph S. (pp. 56,246, Plate 18), born in 1911 in Czestochowa, Poland Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York, in 1934, at the Rockefeller Institute with Max Bergmann 1934-1935 (p. 47). In 1945 he became Associate Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Chair of the Department of Biochemistry 1951-1967, Eugene Higgins Professor of Biochemistry 1957-1982, Professor of the History of Medicine 1980-1982. Published, among others. General Biochemistry (with S. Simmons, 1953), Molecules and Life (1972), and selected articles on the History of Biochemistry and Chemistry since 1800. 

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