biography
| name: |
Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz L(udwig)
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pronunciation:
[frengkl konrat]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–99)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). He studied medicine there and biochemistry in Edinburgh before moving to the USA in 1936, becoming a US citizen in 1941, and joining the University of California at Berkeley in 1951. His work with viruses showed by 1955 that some could be split reversibly into a protein component and a nucleic acid, and that the latter alone was an infective agent; it was a ‘living chemical’, and a basic unit in the new science of molecular biology. |
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