Phoebus levene biography of albert

(b.

Phoebus levene biography of albert

Sagor, Russia, 25 February ; d.New York, N. Y., 6 September ),

biochemistry.

An American biochemist who carried out extensive research on conjugated proteins, Levene was particularly noted for his pioneering work on nucleoproteins and their component nucleic acides.

He was the second of eight children of a custom shirtmaker, Solom Michael Levene and the former Etta Brick. The family moved to St. Petersburg in so the children might attend private schools and the classical academy. Upon graduation from the latter in , Phoebus was admitted to the Imperial Military Medical Academy in St.

Petersburg, where chemistry was taught by Borodin and his son–in–law, Alexander Dianin. Because of growing anti–Semitism the Levene family emigrated to New York in , but Phoebus returned to the medical academy and received his M.D.

in the fall of that year.

He then undertook medical practice in New York’s Lower East Side but was concurrently enrolled as a spe