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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 ...
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Mar 20, 2024 · Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (born Aug. 25, 1900, Hildesheim, Ger.—died Nov. 22, 1981, Oxford, Eng.) 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 cycle).
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Learn about the life and work of Hans Krebs, the 1953 Nobel laureate in Medicine, who discovered the citric acid cycle and other metabolic pathways.
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May 21, 2018 · Sir Hans Adolf Krebs. 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.
Krebs shared the Nobel Prize with Fritz Lipmann who had discovered co-enzyme A. Subsequently, working with Hans Kornberg, who was Sir William Dunn Professor in the Biochemistry Department from 1975 to 1995, Krebs discovered the glyoxylate cycle, a variation of the citric acid cycle occurring in plants, bacteria, protists and fungi.
4 days ago · A Dictionary of Scientists. The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. (1900–1981)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 ...
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS 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 makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the ...
