title: Lipmann and Anfinsen: Nobel biochemists of Beecher's anesthesia laboratory.
abstract: Henry K. Beecher performed blood pH and gas analysis on patients in the 1940s, though the biochemical technology was not widely available until the 1950s. Two of Beecher's biochemist coworkers, Fritz Lipmann and Christian B. Anfinsen, went on to earn Nobel Prizes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. talston@partners.org
authors.forename: Theodore A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Alston
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D001671:Biochemistry; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*