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3 unusual facts about Max Bergmann


Carboxybenzyl

The method was first used by Max Bergmann and Leonidas Zerwas in 1932 for the synthesis of peptides.

Cathepsin

Much of this earlier work was done in the laboratory of Max Bergmann, who spent the first several decades of the century defining these proteases.

Emil L. Smith

He joined the lab of eminent protein chemist Max Bergmann at the Rockefeller Institute in 1940, where he worked with a number of important biochemists and began a significant line of research on the intestinal enzyme erepsin.



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