Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. Wikipedia
Born: June 12, 1899, Königsberg
Died: July 24, 1986 (age 87 years), Poughkeepsie, NY
Books: Wanderings of a Biochemist
Notable students: Herman Kalckar, Jorge Allende, and Yasutomi Nishizuka