Haim Ernst Wertheimer
Haim Ernst Wertheimer | |
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| Born | August 24, 1893 Bühl, Germany |
| Died | March 23, 1978 (aged 84) |
| Known for | Research of the field of fat metabolism |
| Awards | Israel Prize (1956) Solomon Bublick Award (1964) |
Haim Ernst Wertheimer (Hebrew: חיים ארנסט ורטהיימר; August 24, 1893 – March 23, 1978) was an Israeli biochemist.
Biography
[edit]Wertheimer was born in Bühl, Germany in 1893 and studied in his native town and in Baden-Baden. He commenced studying medicine in 1912, initially in Berlin, Bonn and Kiel, before his studies were interrupted by World War I, where he served in a medical capacity in Flanders and Italy, and was awarded the Iron Cross, second class, and other decorations. Following the war, he completed his medical studies in Heidelberg University.[1]
In 1920–21 Wertheimer worked as a doctor at Berlin's municipal orphanage, and subsequently received a position at the Institute for Physiology, University of Halle.[1]
With the Nazi rise to power in Germany Wertheimer lost his job. In 1934 he emigrated to Mandate Palestine and accepted a job as temporary director of the Laboratory of Chemistry, at Hadassah Medical School in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He continued working at the Hadassah Medical Center until 1963,[1] and served as dean of the institution in the '50s. Werthimer is regarded as the father of the field of fat metabolism.[2]
Awards
[edit]- In 1956, Wertheimer was awarded the Israel Prize, for medicine.[3]
- In 1964, he received the Solomon Bublick Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ernst Wertheimer" (in German). catalogus-professorum-halensis. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It By Gary Taubes, p.113
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1956 (in Hebrew)".
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- Heidelberg University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Halle
- Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Israel Prize in medicine recipients
- Israeli scientists
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
- German Jewish military personnel of World War I
- People from Bühl (Baden)
- 1893 births
- 1978 deaths
- Solomon Bublick Award recipients
- Physicians from Baden-Württemberg
- Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah