Max Rudolf "Rudi" Lemberg
FRS FAA (19 October 1896 – 10 April 1975) was a German-Australian biochemist who specialised in
porphyrin
Porphyrins ( ) are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−). The parent of porphyrin is porphine, a rare chemical com ...
structure and function. He was a Foundation
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
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(FAA).
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He was a director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research
The Kolling Institute is located in the grounds of the Royal North Shore Hospital in St Leonards, Sydney Australia. The institute, founded in 1920, is the oldest medical research institute in New South Wales.
The Kolling Institute is a part ...
from 1935 to 1972, establishing a major research focus on porphyrins
Porphyrins ( ) are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−). The parent of porphyrin is porphine, a rare chemical compo ...
, structures within molecules which give the red colour to blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the c ...
and the yellow colour to bile
Bile (from Latin ''bilis''), or gall, is a dark-green-to-yellowish-brown fluid produced by the liver of most vertebrates that aids the digestion of lipids in the small intestine. In humans, bile is produced continuously by the liver (liver bile ...
.
He applied for naturalization
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as an Australian citizen in 1937.
Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship
The Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship offered by the Academy is named in his honour.[
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Awardees:
* 2018 – Christina A. Kellogg
* 2016 – L.J. Berliner
* 2012 – P. Jones
* 2010 – J. Deisenhofer
* 2008 — John F. Allen
* 2006 – J. Vymazal
* 2004 – G.C. Dismukes
* 2002 – P. Fromme; R.N. Perham
* 2001 – D.M.J.S. Bowman
* 1999 – V.L. Schramm
* 1997 – M.D. Brand
* 1996 — T.F. Flannery
* 1993 – W.R. Briggs
* 1992 – E.M. Kosower
* 1991 – R. Huber
* 1990 – J. Porath
* 1989 – M.L. Rosenzweig
* 1986 – H. Scheer
* 1985 – M.G. Rossmann
* 1984 – O.T.G. Jones
* 1983 – J. Heslop-Harrison
* 1982 – W.K. Joklik
* 1981 – E. Margoliash; P.H. Raven
* 1980 – L.E. Mortenson; G.J.V. Nossal
* 1979 – B. Chance; J.B. Gurdon; G.S. Stent
References
1896 births
1975 deaths
Australian biochemists
German emigrants to Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Fellows of the Royal Society
Place of birth missing
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