biography
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Krebs, Sir Hans (Adolf)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–81)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Hildesheim, NC Germany. He began his research at Freiburg, but was forced to emigrate to England in 1933, where he continued his work at Cambridge, then at Sheffield (1935–54) and Oxford (1954–67). He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1953 for his work on the nature of metabolic processes, the way living creatures obtain energy from food. He was knighted in 1958. |
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