Feodor Lynen - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1964
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Feodor Lynen

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1964
for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Together with: Konrad Emil Bloch
Citizenship
Germany Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
4/6/1911
place of birth
Munich
date of death
8/6/1979
place of death
Munich
Lived
68 years
member of
  • Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular
    • start time: 1969
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1966
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1962
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
employer
  • Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
educated at
  • Luitpold Gymnasium
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
field of work
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
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