Feodor Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
Born	6 April 1911 Munich, German Empire
Died	6 August 1979(1979-08-06) (aged 68) Munich, West Germany
Education	University of Munich
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Munich Max Planck Society
Doctoral advisor	Heinrich Otto Wieland
Doctoral students	Dieter Oesterhelt

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen ForMemRS^[1] (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːodoːɐ̯ ˈlyːnən] ^ⓘ; 6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist. In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.