Gertrude
E. Perlmann was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia. She
attended the German University of Prague, from which she received her
D.Sc. degree in 1936. Following graduation, she worked at the
Biological Laboratory of the Carlsberg Foundation and the Carlsberg
Laboratory in Copenhagen. Perlmann moved to the United States of
America where she worked a the Harvard Medical School, the
Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Rockefeller Institute.
Perlmann is most noted for her work in protein chemistry. Early in her research career, she used electrophoresis to discover the structure of egg albumin. Next she moved to a study of pepsin, an amino acid. She is also known for her studies of the protein phosvitin.
For her biochemical research, Gertrude Perlmann was awarded the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1965.
She died in New York City on September 9, 1974.
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