Max Rudolf "Rudi" Lemberg FRS FAA (19 October 1896 – 10 April 1975) was a German-Australian biochemist who specialised in porphyrin structure and function. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA).[1][2][3]

Rudi Lemberg
Born
Max Rudolf Lemberg

(1896-10-09)9 October 1896
Died10 April 1975(1975-04-10) (aged 78)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]

He was a director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research from 1935 to 1972, establishing a major research focus on porphyrins, structures within molecules which give the red colour to blood and the yellow colour to bile.

He applied for naturalization as an Australian citizen in 1937.[4]

Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship edit

The Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship offered by the academy is named in his honour.[5]

Awardees:

References edit

  1. ^ a b Rimington, C.; Gray, C. H. (1976). "Max Rudolf Lemberg 19 October 1896 -- 10 April 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 22: 256–294. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0011.
  2. ^ J. Barrett; R.N. Robertson. "Max Rudolph Lemberg 1896-1975". Biographical memoirs. Australian Academy of Science. Originally published in Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol.4, no.1, 1978. Also available at AAS
  3. ^ R. Bhathal. "Lemberg, Max Rudolf (Rudi) (1896–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, (MUP), 2000.
  4. ^ "Advertising". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. II, no. 62. New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1937. p. 11. Retrieved 20 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship". science.org.au.