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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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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.
Dec 9, 1981 · Sir Hans Krebs, a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 for discovering the basic pathways by which food is converted to energy in the body, died Nov. 22 in...
Hans Adolf Krebs died in Oxford on 22 November 1981, at the age of 81 and only two weeks after leaving his beloved laboratory for treatment, in hospital, of what he believed was a trivial gastric upset.
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Hans Krebs was born in Hildesheim, an old and beautiful town situated near Hannover. In his autobiography, which appeared about the time of his death, Krebs describes the town of his birth in some detail, and also mentions that it was almost completely destroyed during World War II.
