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Lehninger, Albert Lester
(b. Bridgeport, Connecticut, 17 February , d.
Libro albert lehninger biography
Baltimore, Maryland, 4 March ),
biochemistry, energy metabolism (bioenergetics).
Lehninger is perhaps most widely known for his synoptic and lucid textbook, Biochemistry (), which inspired many students in the field.
Through his research, as well as through substantive contributions in leadership roles and education (including two other books: The Mitochondrion, ; and Bioenergetics, ), he helped pioneer a new interdisciplinary field, bioenergetics, in the mid-twentieth century.
His most significant research achievements were to identify the mitochondrion as the site of the most important energy reactions in the cell and to characterize and quantify many features of that system (including the burning of fats, calcium transport, and proton stoichiometries).
His focus on the mitochondrion also laid a foundation for studies on the movement, storing, and regulation of calcium in the cell.
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