Dr.
Bernhard Witkop
(
–
)
1917
2010
National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolic and Digestive Diseases
;
Bethesda, MD
Biological chemist; Government research institution administrator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Chemistry
Elected
1978
He helped to start the Visiting Program in the early fifties that allowed Scientists, especially from Japan, to spend 2-5 years at NIH. The Cyanogen Bromide Cleavage became a milestone in protein chemistry and made possible the synthesis of insulin by genetic engineering. The isolation of batrachotoxin from poison-arrow frog of Colombia opened new vistas in neurochemistry. The NIH-Shift shed new light on the biosynthesis of neurotransmitters.
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