Albert Neuberger
| Albert Neuberger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 April 1908 Hassfurt, Bavaria |
| Died | 14 August 1996 (aged 88) Hampstead, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater |
University of Würzburg University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Robert Harington |
| Doctoral students | Frederick Sanger |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Children |
Michael Neuberger James Neuberger David Neuberger Anthony Neuberger |
Albert Neuberger CBE FRCP (15 April 1908 – 14 August 1996) was Professor of Chemical Pathology, St Mary's Hospital, 1955–1973, and later Emeritus Professor.
Born in Hassfurt, northern Bavaria, the first of the three children of Max Neuberger (1877–1931), cloth merchant and businessman, and Bertha, née Hiller (1888–1974), both religious Jews. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg where he was awarded a summa cum laude medical degree. He also took courses in chemistry there and also attended lectures given by Karl Bonhöffer, the outstanding psychiatrist and neurologist. He also worked for a while in research in Berlin where he began a life long friendship with Ernst Chain. Chain shared the 1945 Nobel prize with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey for their work on penicillin.
Neuberger foresaw Hitler's persecution of the Jews after he came to power in 1933, and, as with numerous other Jewish intellectuals (including Chain), he fled to London. He received a PhD from the University of London (UCL) after attending UCL Medical School under Professor Sir Charles Robert Harington FRS in 1936 and continued research there. At the start of the Second World War he moved to the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge where he took on Fred Sanger as his PhD student. They published a paper together on the nitrogen content of potatoes. In 1942 he moved back to London to work at the National Institute for Medical Research. During the war, he spent some time in India as a consultant in nutrition to the army. From 1950–1955 he was Head of Biochemistry at the National Institute for Medical Research. He then moved to St Mary's Hospital as Professor.
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