Famous People with Name Fraenkel

Heinrich Fraenkel            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Heinrich Fraenkel: was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ernst Eduard Samuel Fraenkel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ernst Eduard Samuel Fraenkel: was a German linguist who made major contributions to the fields of Indo-European linguistics and Baltic studies. In 1905 he defended his dissertation about ancient Greek denominal verbs. From 1906 to 1908 he studied with August Leskien, an expert on the Baltic languages, in Leipzig. In 1909 he became a Privatdozent at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. In 1916 he became an außerordentlicher Professor and in 1920 ordentlicher Professor.

Boris Fraenkel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Boris Fraenkel: was a Communist politician active in French and international politics.

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat: was a biochemist, famous for his viral research.Due to the rise of Nazism in Germany he left for Scotland in 1933 and finished his PhD at the University of Edinburgh (1936). After completing his doctorate, he emigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1941. He worked at a number of institutes before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 where he remained until his death.His most noted research was on the tobacco mosaic virus. He discovered that the genetic control of viral reproduction was RNA and that it is carried in the nucleic core of each virus. In 1955 he and biophysicist Robley Williams showed that a functional virus could be created out of purified RNA and a protein coat. In 1960 he announced the complete sequencing of the 158 amino acids in the virus.