Max Rudolf "Rudi" Lemberg FRS FAA (19 October 1896 – 10 April 1975) was a German-Australian biochemist who specialised in porphyrin structure and function. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA).^[1][2][3]

He was a director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research from 1935 to 1972, establishing a major research focus on porphyrins, structures within molecules which give the red colour to blood and the yellow colour to bile.

He applied for naturalization as an Australian citizen in 1937.^[4]

The Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship offered by the academy is named in his honour.^[5]

Awardees:

• 2020 – Robert Edwards
• 2018 – Christina A. Kellogg
• 2016 – Lawrence Berliner
• 2012 – Peter Jones
• 2010 – Johann Deisenhofer
• 2008 – John F. Allen
• 2006 – Jan Vymazal
• 2004 – Gerard Dismukes
• 2002 – Petra Fromme; Richard Perham
• 2001 – D.M.J.S. Bowman
• 1999 – Vern Schramm
• 1997 – Martin Brand
• 1996 – Tim Flannery
• 1993 – Winslow Briggs
• 1992 – Edward Kosower
• 1991 – Robert Huber
• 1990 – Jerker Porath
• 1989 – Michael Rosenzweig
• 1986 – Hugo Scheer
• 1985 – Michael Rossmann
• 1984 – O.T.G. Jones
• 1983 – Jack Heslop-Harrison
• 1982 – Wolfgang Joklik
• 1981 – Emanuel Margoliash; Peter H. Raven
• 1980 – L.E. Mortenson; G.J.V. Nossal
• 1979 – Britton Chance; John Gurdon; Gunther Stent