Haim Ernst Wertheimer (Hebrew: חיים ארנסט ורטהיימר; August 24, 1893 – March 23, 1978) was an Israeli biochemist.
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Wertheimer was born in Bühl, Germany in 1893 and studied in his native town and Baden Baden. His commenced studying medicine in 1912, initially in Berlin, Bonn and Kiel, before his studies were interrupted by Word War I, where he served in a medical capacity in Flanders and Italy, and was awarded the Iron Cross, second class, and other decorations. Following the war, he completed his medical studies in a Heidelberg University.[1]
In 1920-21, he worked as a doctor at Berlin's municipal orphanage, and subsequently served in a position in the Institute for Physiology at the University of Halle.[1]
With the rise of Nazi power in Germany, Wertheimer lost his job. In 1934, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine and accepted a job as temporary director of the Laboratory of Chemistry, at the then Hadassah Medical School, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He continued working at the Hadassah Medical Center until 1963.[1]
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