Rodolfo Brenner
Argentine biochemist
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Rodolfo Brenner was born on July 17, 1922, at Banfield, Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. In 1940 and 1946 he graduated as the best B. Sc and PhD chemistry student at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires winning gold medals for his performances
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Career
Rodolfo Brenner started as a graduate assistance till he became a professor. He worked as a Chairman of Bromatology and Industrial Analysis of the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires between 1946 and 1954. Consequently, he was the one in charge of Industrial Toxicology Section at the Institute of Medical-Technological Research and the Institute of Public Hygiene where he studied the lipid composition of different river fish and he supervised five doctoral students.
In his last year as the chair of Bromatology and Industrial Analysis, he was awarded a British Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on "lipid chemistry and biochemistry" with Professor John Arnold Lovern at the Torry Research Institute in Aberdeen in Scotland. He returned in 1956 and became a full professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of La Plata. He became emeritus professor in 1998, the director of National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and institute of Physiology in 1968 and 1971 respectively.