Otto Heinrich Warburg Net Worth

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist and physician born into a renowned Jewish family. Despite his Jewish heritage, he was declared a Mischling during the Nazi regime and allowed to continue his research. It is believed that he was allowed to live because of his involvement in cancer research. Warburg was so devoted to his work that he refused to leave Germany even when offered the chance to do so. He hypothesized that a tumor cell turns cancerous when it starts generating energy by non-oxidative breakdown of glucose, and for this work he was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, receiving it once.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Physiologist & Physician
Birth Day October 08, 1883
Birth Place Freiburg, Baden, German Empire, German
Age 136 YEARS OLD
Died On 1 August 1970(1970-08-01) (aged 86)\nBerlin, West Germany
Birth Sign Scorpio
Alma mater University of Berlin University of Heidelberg
Known for Pathogenesis of cancer Warburg effect
Awards Iron Cross 1st class (1918) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1931) Pour le Mérite (Civil Class) (1952) Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Fields Cell biology
Institutions Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
Doctoral advisor Emil Fischer Ludolf von Krehl

💰 Net worth

Otto Heinrich Warburg, a renowned physiologist and physician hailing from Germany, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in the year 2024. As an accomplished scientist, Warburg has made significant contributions to the field of cellular respiration and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his groundbreaking research. Despite his successful career, Warburg's net worth remains relatively modest, likely reflecting his focus on scientific endeavors rather than personal wealth accumulation.

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Famous Quotes:

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

— Otto H. Warburg,

Biography/Timeline

1883

Otto Heinrich Warburg was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1883, close to the Swiss border. Otto's mother was the daughter of a Protestant family of Bankers and civil servants from Baden. His father, Emil Warburg, had converted to Protestantism as an adult, although Emil’s parents were Orthodox Jews. Emil was a member of the illustrious Warburg family of Altona, and had converted to Christianity reportedly after a disagreement with his Conservative Jewish parents. Emil was also President of the Physikalische Reichsanstalt, Wirklicher Geheimer Oberregierungsrat (True Senior Privy Counselor).

1906

Otto Warburg studied chemistry under the famous Emil Fischer, and earned his Doctor of chemistry in Berlin in 1906. He then studied under Ludolf von Krehl and earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Heidelberg in 1911.

1908

Between 1908 and 1914, Warburg was affiliated with the Naples Marine Biological Station, (in Naples), Italy, where he conducted research. In later years, he would return for visits, and maintained a lifelong friendship with the family of the station's Director, Anton Dohrn.

1918

In 1918, Warburg was appointed professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem (part of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft). By 1931 he was named Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology, which was founded the previous year by a donation of the Rockefeller Foundation to the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (since renamed the Max Planck Society).

1931

Otto Warburg edited and had much of his original work published in The Metabolism of Tumours (tr. 1931) and wrote New Methods of Cell Physiology (1962). An unabashed anglophile, Otto Warburg was thrilled when Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate. He was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite in 1952 and was known to tell other universities not to bother with honorary doctorates. He would ask officials to mail him medals he had been awarded so as to avoid a ceremony that would separate him from his beloved laboratory.

1932

Nobel Laureate George Wald, having completed his Ph.D. in zoology at Columbia University, received an award from the U.S. National Research Council to study with Warburg. During his time with Warburg, 1932-1933, Wald discovered vitamin A in the retina.

1935

According to the Reichsbürgergesetz from 1935 (cf. Nuremberg Laws) Warburg was considered by the Nazis a half-Jew (Halbjude) resp. Mischling and in September 1942 he issued an official request for equal status ("Gleichstellung") with Germans, which was granted.

1941

In 1941, Warburg lost his post briefly when he made critical remarks about the regime, but a few weeks later a personal order from Hitler's Chancellery ordered him to resume work on his cancer research. Göring also arranged for him to be Classified as one-quarter Jewish.

1943

In 1943 Warburg relocated his laboratory to the village of Liebenburg on the outskirts of Berlin to avoid ongoing air attacks.

1944

In 1944, Warburg was nominated for a second Nobel Prize in Physiology by Albert Szent-Györgyi, for his work on nicotinamide, the mechanism and enzymes involved in fermentation, and the discovery of flavin (in yellow enzymes). Some sources report that he was selected to receive the award that year, but was prevented from receiving it by Adolf Hitler’s regime, which had issued a decree in 1937 that forbade Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes. According to the Nobel Foundation, this rumor is not true; although he was considered a worthwhile candidate, he was not selected for the prize at that time.

1963

The Otto Warburg Medal is intended to commemorate Warburg's outstanding achievements. It has been awarded by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) since 1963. The prize honors and encourages pioneering achievements in fundamental biochemical and molecular biological research. The Otto Warburg Medal is regarded as the highest award in Germany for biochemists and molecular biologists. It has been endowed with prize money, sponsored by the publishing company Elsevier/BBA.

1968

In 1968, he suffered a broken femur. This was complicated by deep vein thrombosis. He died in 1970 from pulmonary embolism and was buried in a Christian cemetery.

2019

However, a recent reevaluation of the data from nuclear/cytoplasm transfer experiments, where nuclei from cancer cells are placed in normal cytoplasm and where nuclei from normal cells are placed in cancer cytoplasm, more strongly supports Warburg’s original theory than the somatic mutation theory for the origin of malignant transformation and cancer.