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Citations
9110
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11354
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3078

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1936 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Max Bergmann was affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their primary research focus was in Materials Science, with a specialization in Materials Chemistry. Their academic work spanned multiple related subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, as well as areas in the humanities such as Literature and Literary Theory, Political Science and International Relations, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered within Bergmann's research included:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
  • European history and politics
  • Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Bergmann contributed to several publication venues, frequently appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Film criticism
  • Frames Cinema Journal

Their recent papers illustrated a breadth of interdisciplinary interests. Notable publications included:

  • "How to Live Together with Her (2013): Posthuman Forms of Roland Barthes' Idiorrhythmy" (2020) in Film criticism
  • "Interfaces of Fiction: Buddha.mov (2017) and Smartphone Aesthetics" (2021) in Frames Cinema Journal
  • "A Small Step for Epitaxy, a Large Step Toward Twist Angle Control in 2D Heterostructures" (2024) authored by Oliver Maßmeyer in Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • "4D-STEM on Epitaxial Grown 2D Vertical Heterostructures of Twisted WS2" (2023) authored by Oliver Maßmeyer in Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • "A Small Step for Epitaxy, a Large Step Towards Twist Angle Control in 2D Heterostructures" (2024) authored by Oliver Maßmeyer in arXiv (Cornell University)

Bergmann collaborated often with a core group of coauthors including:

  • Jürgen Belz
  • Robin Günkel
  • Andreas Beyer
  • Oliver Maßmeyer
  • Johannes Glowatzki

During their career, Max Bergmann was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1936.

Best Publications

  • Über ein allgemeines Verfahren der Peptid-Synthese

    Max Bergmann;Leonidas Zervas

  • THE RÔLE OF SPECIFICITY IN THE ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS: SYNTHESES WITH INTRACELLULAR ENZYMES

    Max Bergmann;Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

  • THE PEPTIDASES OF INTESTINAL MUCOSA

    Emil L. Smith;Max Bergmann

  • THE SPECIFICITY OF TRYPSIN

    Max Bergmann;Joseph S. Fruton;Heinz Pollok

  • ON PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES: VII. THE SYNTHESIS OF PEPTIDES OF l-LYSINE AND THEIR BEHAVIOR WITH PAPAIN

    Max Bergmann;Leonidas Zervas;William F. Ross

  • CHEMICAL REACTIONS OF THE NITROGEN MUSTARD GASES.1 I. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF METHYL-BIS(β-CHLOROETHYL)AMINE IN WATER

    Calvin Golumbic;Joseph S. Fruton;Max Bergmann

  • Synthesen mit Glucosamin

    Max Bergmann;Leonidas Zervas

  • ON PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES: XII. REGARDING THE SPECIFICITY OF AMINOPEPTIDASE AND CARBOXYPEPTIDASE. A NEW TYPE OF ENZYME IN THE INTESTINAL TRACT

    Max Bergmann;Joseph S. Fruton

  • Chemical reactions of the nitrogen mustard gases; the transformations of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine in water.

    C Golumbic;J S Fruton;M Bergmann

  • SOME SYNTHETIC AND HYDROLYTIC EXPERIMENTS WITH CHYMOTRYPSIN

    Max Bergmann;Joseph S. Fruton

  • THE SPECIFICITY OF PEPSIN

    Joseph S. Fruton;Max Bergmann

  • THE ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF PEPTIDE BONDS

    Max Bergmann;Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

  • ON THE STRUCTURE OF SILK FIBROIN

    Max Bergmann;Carl Niemann

  • ON PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES XIII. SYNTHETIC SUBSTRATES FOR CHYMOTRYPSIN

    Max Bergmann;Joseph S. Fruton

  • ON THE STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS: CATTLE HEMOGLOBIN, EGG ALBUMIN, CATTLE FIBRIN, AND GELATIN

    Max Bergmann;Carl Niemann

  • COMPLEX SALTS OF AMINO ACIDS AND PEPTIDES: II. DETERMINATION OF l-PROLINE WITH THE AID OF RHODANILIC ACID. THE STRUCTURE OF GELATIN

    Max Bergmann

  • Über Acetobrom-rhamnose und ihre Verwendung zur Synthese von Rhamnosiden

    Emil Fischer;Max Bergmann;Artur Rabe

  • THE MULTIPLE SPECIFICITY OF CHYMOTRYPSIN

    Joseph S. Fruton;Max Bergmann

  • Umlagerungen peptidähnlicher Stoffe II. Derivate der γ-Amino-β-oxybuttersäure.

    Max Bergmann;Erwin Brand;Fritz Weinmann

  • The specificity of carboxypeptidase.

    Mark Arnold Stahmann;Joseph S. Fruton;Max Bergmann

  • Chemical reactions of the nitrogen mustard gases; monosubstitution products of ethyl-bis (beta-chloroethyl)amine and methyl-bis (beta-chloroethyl)amine.

    Calvin Golumbic;Joseph S. Fruton;Max Bergmann

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Stein
William H. Stein Rockefeller University
Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer University of Würzburg
Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore Rockefeller University
Klaus Hofmann
Klaus Hofmann University of Pittsburgh
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud Cornell University

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