Herman Kalckar Research Materials

Herman M. Kalckar was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 26 1908. He received his medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1933 and his PhD in 1938. During the WW II years he was in the U.S. as a Rockefeller research fellow and also taught at Washington University School of Medicine. After the war he returned to Copenhagen, but settled in the U.S. in 1953 working for NIH (1953-1956). He later taught at Johns Hopkins (1958-1961) and Harvard and worked art Massachusetts General Hospital. His specialty was metabolic enzymes. He died in Cambridge, MA on May 17, 1991.