Dr. Fritz Bloch This is Me

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1. 1. Konrad Bloch - Biography

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   Published on: 1/21/2008   Last Visited: 1/21/2008

   In 1936 Bloch was able to immigrate to the United States as he had long hoped. On advice by the late Max Bergmann and with the generous support of the Wallerstein Foundation, he entered the Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, where he became a graduate student under Hans T. Clarke. Research leading to the Ph.D. degree was completed in 1938. Rudolf Schoenheimer then asked Bloch to join his research group.
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   During that time (in 1942) Bloch in collaboration with David Rittenberg initiated the work on the biological synthesis of cholesterol which was to occupy his research interests for nearly twenty years.
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   In 1946 Bloch moved to the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry.
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   In 1954 Bloch was appointed Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, and in 1968 he became Chairman of the Department. Apart from continuing research on various aspects of terpene and sterol biogenesis, he has become interested in the enzymatic formation of unsaturated fatty acids and more recently in various aspects of biochemical evolution.
   
   Professor Bloch is a member of the American Chemical Society, National Academy of Sciences U. S., American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Society of Biological Chemists, Harvey Society, American Philosophical Society, a honorary member of the Lombardy Academy of Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He was President of the American Society of Biological Chemists (1967), Chairman of the Section of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences (1966-1969), and Chairman of the National Committee for the International Union of Biochemistry (1968).
   
   Dr. Bloch has been honored as recipient of the following medals and awards: Medal of the Société de Chimie Biologique (1958), Fritzsche Award (American Chemical Society, 1964), Centennial Science Award (University of Notre Dame, 1965), Cardano Medal (Lombardy Academy of Sciences, 1965), Distinguished Service Award (University of Chicago School of Medicine, 1964), William Lloyd Evans Award (Ohio State University, 1968). He holds honorary doctor degrees from the universities of Uruguay (1966), Brazil (1966), Nancy (1966), Columbia University (1967) ,Technische Hochschule, Munich (1968), and Brandeis University (1970).

2. 2. Jewish Nobel Prize Winners, Biomedical Sciences 1908-1965

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   Published on: 4/14/2003   Last Visited: 10/20/2004

   In 1936 Bloch fulfilled his hope of emigrating to the USA, where he entered Columbia University in its College of Physicians and Surgeons' Department of Biochemistry, where he earned his Ph.D.
   
   "After teaching at the University of Chicago (1946-54), Bloch became professor of biochemistry at Harvard, continuing his research on lipids..."6