Lipmann, Fritz Albert (1899-1986), a German-born American biochemist, won a share of the 1953 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Lipmann won for discovering coenzyme A while a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1945 and identifying it as a substance that helps the body produce energy from food. Previously, he had shown that a chemical compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the major form of chemical energy in the cell. He was born on June 12, 1899, in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), and died on July 24, 1986, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
