Hans Krebs

Hans Krebs

SIR HANS KREBS d1981. German-born 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 makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the cells of humans and many other organisms, namely the citric acid cycle and the urea cycle. The former, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", is the key sequence of metabolic reactions that provides energy in the cells of humans and other oxygen-respiring organisms and its discovery earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. He died in Oxford aged 81 on November 22nd 1981

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