VOL. 12 {1953) 



OTTO WARBURG, ARTISAN OF CELL CHEMISTRY 



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belonged to the Russian or to the American occupation zone, since he was domiciled 

 partly in the Russian zone, on the Island of Rugen, and partly in the American sector 

 of west Berlin ; and, furthermore, his Liebenberg institute lay in the Russian zone, while 

 the mother research institute was in the American sector of Berlin. Warburg decided 

 for the Americans, and in 1948 began anew to re-establish at Dahlem the Kaiser Wilhelm 

 Institute* for Cell Physiology, the building of which had remained undamaged. From 

 all sides he received help, as reward for not fleeing from Berlin, from neither Hitler 

 nor Stalin. His efforts during the war years and after, to maintain his laboratory and 

 experimental work, bore fruit in the uniquely early reconstitution of his institute, which, 

 already in 1949, had become well equipped with apparatus and books. 



Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology, will Emil Fischer Memorial Statue, Berlin-Dahlem 



It was during this year of the re-equipment of his Dahlem institute that he availed 

 himself of an opportunity to visit his American friends. Through the courtesy and 

 generous support of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health 

 Service, at Bethesda, Maryland, he was enabled, in cooperation with the staff of the 

 Cytochemistry Section there, and with Sterling Hendricks of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture at nearby Beltsville, to develop modern methods of photo- 

 synthetic experimentation, and to "rediscover" the high efficiency of photosynthesis. 

 As a conclusion to this important and memorable visit, the experimental set-up at 

 Bethesda was transferred for the summer of 1949 to the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he had the privilege of demonstrating for many 

 weeks, through the hospitality of Professor E. S. Guzman-Barron, the new methods 

 to the rising generation of American biologists. Since these Woods Hole days he has 



Since July 1953: Max Planck Institute. 



