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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 19 > Ralph Hirschmann, one of 1st to synthesize enzymes

Ralph Hirschmann, one of 1st to synthesize enzymes

The project was a breakthrough in medicine inventions

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
July 19, 2009

Ralph Hirschmann, a leader of a team of biochemists that for the first time in history synthesized an enzyme, one of the master chemicals of life, died June 20 at his home in Lansdale, Pa. He was 87.

The cause was kidney failure, his daughter Carla Hummel said.

Along with Robert Denkewalter,....

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