10: Chemical Structure and Biological Function of the Pyrrole Pigments and Enzymes (1954)

Authors

  • Max Rudolph Lemberg Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

Abstract

Liversidge Research Lecture delivered to the Royal Society of New South Wales, July 15, 1954. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1954, 88, 114-135.

"It is the story of a long research adventure which I intend to put before you. Everyone of us, however, explores only a few corners of a continent, and a rough map of what is known today must precede the story. The field is that of the tetrapyrrole pigments and enzymes, full of intrinsic chemical interest, but still more fundamentally important for the physiologist and biologist. Structure, metabolism, function and their correlation will therefore receive attention."

Author Biography

  • Max Rudolph Lemberg, Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney


    Max Rudolph (Rudi) Lemberg was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1896. In 1933 he left for England with his wife as anti-Semitism increased in Germany. After working at Cambridge University, he was appointed as director of the Research Biochemical Laboratories at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, and spent much of the next 40 years researching the chemistry of blood and bile pigments. In 1955, Lemberg founded the Australian Biochemical Society.

     

    For additional biographical information, photographic permissions, references and a list of honours, awards and publications, please see pages 2–4 of the transcript.

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Max Rudolph Lemberg portrait.

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