Person

Lemberg, Max Rudolf (Rudi) (1896 - 1975)

FAA FRS

Born
19 October 1896
Breslau, Germany
Died
10 April 1975
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Biochemist

Summary

Rudi Lemberg was a distinguished biochemist noted for his research in biological pigments when he came to Australia in 1935 to become Director of the Biomedical Laboratories at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He made significant contributions to the study of the structure of prosthetic groups, especially those of cytochrome oxidase and cytochrome, and the biochemistry and chemical pathology of porphyrias. With colleagues Lemberg established the relationship of polystictin to antibiotic actinomycins. His book Hematin compounds and bile pigments, published in 1949 with J. W. Legge, established him as an authority in field of tetrapyrrole biochemistry. From 1952 to 1972 Lemberg was Assistant Director of the Institute for Medical Research at the Royal North Shore Hospital. The Lemberg Medal and Lecture was inaugurated by the Australian Biochemical Society in 1968 and has been awarded by the Australian Society for Biochemical and Molecular Biology since 1990.

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Chronology

1923
Education - PhD, University of Breslau, Germany
1923 - 1926
Career position - Biochemist, Bayer
1935 - 1972
Career position - Director, Biomedical Laboratories, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
1936 - 1972
Career position - Assistant Director, Institute for Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
1948
Award - H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Australian Chemical Institute
1952 - 1975
Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1954
Award - Archibald Liversidge Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1954
Career position - President, Section N, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1954 - 1966
Career position - Member, National Committee for Biochemistry, Australian Academy of Science
1954 - 1975
Award - Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1955
Career position - Foundation President, Australian Biochemical Society
1956
Career position - Professor Emeritus, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1956
Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
1956 - 1958
Career position - Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science 1956 - 1958 Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science
1957 - 1958
Career position - Vice-President, Australian Academy of Science
1959
Award - President, Haematin Enzyme Symposium, Canberra
1964
Award - James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1965
Award - Britannica (Australia) Prize for Science
1968
Award - Lemberg Medal and Lecture instituted by the Australian Biochemical Society
1970
Award - DSc (honoris causa), University of Sydney
1971
Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Max Rudolph Lemberg - Records, 1926 - 1975, MS 087; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Biographical cuttings on Max Rudolph Lemberg, Cuttings files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Encounter with Rudi Lemberg (Surry Hills, New South Wales: Religious Society of Friends in Australia, 1975), 24 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Barrett, J.; Robertson, R. N., 'Max Rudolf Lemberg', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 133-156. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410133.htm. Details
  • Legge, J. W., 'Obituary: Max Rudolf Lemberg (1896-1975)', Search, 6 (10) (1975), 404. Details
  • Lemberg, M. R.; and Frankel, O. H., 'John Edwin Rogers Falk', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 92-107. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230092.htm. Details
  • Lemberg, Max Rudolph, 'Chemist, Biochemist, and Seeker in Three Countries', Annual Review of Biochemistry, 34 (1965), 1-20. Details
  • Lemberg, Max Rudolph, 'The Complimentarity of Religion and Science: A Trialogue', Zygon, 14 (4) (1979), 349-375. Details
  • Nelson, David S., 'The Kolling Institute of Medical Research', Medical Journal of Australia, 143 (1985), 97-101. Details
  • Rimington, C.; and Gray, C. H., 'Max Rudolf Lemberg', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22 (1976), 256-94. Details
  • Storey, Catherine E., 'From opposite sides of the trenches: the two pioneers of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, 1920 - 1974', Medical journal of Australia, 213 (11) (2020), 511-3. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50798. Details

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Digital resources

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