Hans Krebs (biochemist)

Hans Krebs
Born(1900-08-25)25 August 1900
Died22 November 1981(1981-11-22) (aged 81)
Oxford, England
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipNaturalised British (from 1939)
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
University of Freiburg
University of Berlin
University of Hamburg
Known forCitric acid cycle
Urea cycle
Glyoxylate cycle
Krebs–Henseleit solution
Spouse
Margaret Cicely Fieldhouse
(m. 1938)
ChildrenPaul, John, and Helen
AwardsAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1953)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953)
Royal Medal (1954)
Copley Medal (1961)
Scientific career
FieldsInternal medicine, biochemistry
InstitutionsKaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
University of Hamburg
University of Cambridge
University of Sheffield
University of Oxford

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS (/krɛbz, krɛps/, German: [hans ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈkʁeːps] ; 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981)[1][2][3][4] was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist.[5] 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 makes it available to drive the processes of life.[6][7] He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the cells of nearly all organisms, including humans, other than anaerobic microorganisms, namely the citric acid cycle and the urea cycle. The former, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", is the sequence of metabolic reactions that allows cells of oxygen-respiring organisms to obtain far more ATP from the food they consume than anaerobic processes such as glycolysis can supply; and its discovery earned Krebs a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. With Hans Kornberg, he also discovered the glyoxylate cycle,[8] a slight variation of the citric acid cycle found in plants, bacteria, protists, and fungi.

Krebs died in 1981 in Oxford, where he had spent 13 years of his career from 1954 until his retirement in 1967 at the University of Oxford.

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  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference glyox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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