33 Facts About Rudolph Schoenheimer

Rudolf Schoenheimer was a German-American biochemist who developed the technique of isotope labelling of biomolecules, enabling detailed study of metabolism.

Rudolph Schoenheimer further established that cholesterol is a risk factor in atherosclerosis.

Rudolph Schoenheimer suffered from manic depression all of his life, which led to him in 1941 committing suicide using sodium cyanide.

Rudolph Schoenheimer had been honoured with the request to give the Dunham Lecture at Harvard before his death.

Rudolf Rudolph Schoenheimer was born in Berlin, Germany on 10 May 1898.

Rudolph Schoenheimer was the son of Gertrude Edel and Hugo Schoenheimer, who was a physician.

Rudolph Schoenheimer was Jewish, however his family converted to Christianity.

Rudolph Schoenheimer attended local schools in Berlin before graduating from the Dorotheen-Stadtische Gymnasium in 1916.

Rudolph Schoenheimer served in the artillery on the western front for two years during world war 1.

Rudolph Schoenheimer then spent a year working at the Moabit Hospital in Berlin as a pathologist.

Rudolph Schoenheimer continued his scientific research during this time and studied the production of atherosclerosis in animals through administering cholesterol.

In 1924, Rudolph Schoenheimer began his 3-year study at the University of Leipzig, in a program aimed at advancing his knowledge in chemistry.

Rudolph Schoenheimer's first published works, dated during this period were in on the development of atherosclerosis in experimental animals when administered cholesterol.

Rudolph Schoenheimer spent time working in the laboratory of Peter Rona at the Berlin Municipal Hospital.

In 1926, Rudolph Schoenheimer was invited by Ludwig Aschoff to join the faculty at the University of Freiburg.

Rudolph Schoenheimer became the active in 1927, and then the titular, head of his division in 1931.

In 1930, until 1931, Rudolph Schoenheimer was in the United States as the Douglas Smith Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Rudolph Schoenheimer was offered work at Columbia University as an assistant professor, where he continued his research on metabolism and cholesterol synthesis, alongside Walter M Sperry and David Rittenberg.

In 1933, Germany entered a political crisis and saw the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, which led Rudolph Schoenheimer into emigrating to the United States.

Rudolph Schoenheimer had Jewish heritage which he was conscious of despite his Family having converted to Christianity.

Rudolph Schoenheimer had joined a Jewish Youth Movement and was actively involved in the Zionist Organisation following WW1.

Rudolph Schoenheimer began work in the Department of Biological Chemistry as a research assistant.

At Columbia Rudolph Schoenheimer was among others that shared similar interests in Biochemistry and wanted it to move in the direction of organic chemistry.

In 1926, while at the University of Leipzig, Rudolph Schoenheimer developed a method of synthesising peptides.

Rudolph Schoenheimer used the azide coupling method introduced by Theodor Curtius, and the acid chloride method introduced by Emil Fischer in order to make several peptides.

In 1929, Rudolph Schoenheimer investigated how different sterols impacted cholesterol deposition in rabbits.

Rudolph Schoenheimer investigated this finding using a dog which showed dihydrocholesterol was formed in the tissues.

In 1933, Rudolph Schoenheimer emigrated to the United States, where his scientific research took a different focus.

In 1934 Rudolph Schoenheimer began his work on intermediary metabolism, and how stable isotopes could be applied to the study.

Rudolph Schoenheimer had married Salome Glucksohn, a noted zoologist and geneticist, in 1937.

Rudolph Schoenheimer was invited to conduct lectures detailing his scientific work and findings.

Rudolph Schoenheimer was among the first scientists to identify that the bodies of humans and animals had processes of renewal and regeneration.

The methods and techniques used by Rudolph Schoenheimer provided a means to measure quantities of substances within the body prior to the advent of the technologies and software for dynamic modeling.