Search results
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS (/ k r ɛ b z, k r ɛ p s /, German: [hans ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈkʁeːps] ⓘ; 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981) was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration , a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and ...
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle (also called the citric acid cycle, or Krebs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Among his many publications is the remarkable survey of energy transformations in living matter, published in 1957, in collaboration with H. L. Kornberg, which discusses the complex chemical processes which provide living organisms with high-energy phosphate by way of what is known as the Krebs or citric acid cycle.
Born: 25 August 1900, Hildesheim, Germany. Died: 22 November 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the citric acid cycle”. Prize share: 1/2.
May 21, 2018 · The German-British biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric, or tricarboxylic, acid cycle (Krebs cycle). Hans A. Krebs, the son of Georg Krebs, an otolaryngologist, was born in Hildesheim, Germany, on April 25, 1900.
6 days ago · German-born British biochemist who discovered the tricarboxylic acid, or Krebs, cycle – the series of chemical reactions that are fundamental to the metabolism of living organisms. For this he was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was knighted in 1958.
People also ask
Who was Hans Adolf Krebs?
Why did Krebs win a Nobel Prize?
Who discovered the Krebs cycle?
Who was Georg Krebs?
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 for his discovery of the citric acid cycle, shared with Fritz Albert Lipmann. Department of Biochemistry Demonstrator (1933-1935).
