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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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Hans Adolf Krebs. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953. 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.
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was born at Hildesheim, Germany, on August 25th, 1900. He is the son of Georg Krebs, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat surgeon of that city, and his wife Alma, née Davidson. Krebs was educated at the Gymnasium Andreanum at Hildesheim and between the years 1918 and 1923 he studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen ...
Hans Krebs (1900-1981) Proper names for the cyclic oxidation of substrates in the mitochondria matrix are tricarboxylic acid cycle or citric acid cycle. However, many people refer to the process as the Krebs cycle in recognition of the contribution of Hans Krebs to the discovery. Krebs, a German biochemist, first postulated the mechanism in ...
Department of Biochemistry Demonstrator (1933-1935). Hans Adolf Krebs was born in Hildesheim, Germany and by 1933 was working in the Medical Clinic of the University of Freiburg, a post from which he was dismissed in April 1933. By that time, in collaboration with his research student Kurt Henseleit, he had published the details of the first ...
3 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 ...
