Hans Krebs - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1953
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Hans Krebs

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1953
for his discovery of the citric acid cycle
Together with: Fritz Albert Lipmann
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom Germany Germany
Languages
English, German
date of birth
8/25/1900
place of birth
Hildesheim
date of death
11/22/1981
place of death
Oxford
Lived
81 years
member of
  • Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biologia Molecular
    • start time: 1969
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1964
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/1/1951
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1956
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1957
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/20/1947
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1960
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
occupation
  • Whitley Professor of Biochemistry
    • end time: 1967
    • start time: 1954
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • biochemist
  • physician
  • biologist
employer
  • University of Oxford
    • start time: 1954
  • University of Sheffield
    • end time: 1954
    • start time: 10/1/1935
  • University of Cambridge
    • end time: 1935
    • start time: July 1933
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Society
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1930
  • University of Freiburg
    • start time: April 1931
    • end time: 7/1/1933
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • start time: December 1923
    • end time: 1925
  • University of Hamburg
    • start time: 1923
    • start time: December 1923
    • start time: 1919
    • start time: January 1919
  • University of Göttingen
    • end time: 1919
    • start time: December 1918
  • University of Freiburg
    • start time: 1919
    • end time: 1923
  • Gymnasium Andreanum
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
notable work
  • tricarboxylic acid cycle
  • glyoxylate cycle
  • urea cycle
field of work
  • biochemistry
position held
  • professor
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