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Racker, Efraim

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Racker, Efraim (1913-1991)

Polish-born US biochemist. He was chief of nutrition and physiology at the Public Health Research Institute, New York 1943-66, and was at Cornell 1966-91. A pioneer in the biochemistry of cancer, he made major contributions to studies of cellular respiration, enzyme activity, and membrane physiology.

He was born in Neu Sandez. A Jewish physician, he fled the Nazis and went to Wales to study brain metabolism 1938-40. He went to the USA to be a research associate at the University of Minnesota 1941-42, completed his medical residency at Harlem Hospital, New York 1942-44, then moved to New York University 1944-52 and Yale 1952-54.
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