Max Bergmann
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Max Bergmann (1884-1944) was a Jewish scientist.
Bergmann was the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in Dresden, which had been created in 1921 and upon which the Max-Planck-Institute was based.
His is considered a pioneer of applied sciences. He specialized in decoding protein and peptide structures. He also researched their synthesis.
Bergmann left Germany and his institute in the year 1933 and was active thereafter at Rockefeller University in New York. There he was the main scientist for protein chemistry and contributed considerably to the fact that the United States reached a top position in the area of molecular biology. In his famous laboratory worked two eventual Nobel Prize winners.
In the year 2002 in Dresden, the Max Bergmann Center was created.