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Biography of Hans Adolf Krebs, Sir
Name: Hans Adolf Krebs, Sir
Birth Date: April 25, 1900
Death Date: November 22, 1981
Place of Birth: Hildesheim, Germany
Nationality: German, British
Gender: Male
Occupations: biochemist
Hans Adolf Krebs, Sir
The German-British biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric, or tricarboxylic, acid cycle (Krebs cycle).Hans A. Krebs, the son of Georg Krebs, an otolaryngologist, was born in Hildesheim, Germany, on April 25, 1900. He studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, and Berlin, qualified in 1924, and in 1925 graduated as a doctor of medicine in the University of Hamburg. After a year's study of chemistry in Berlin, he was assistant to the biochemist Otto Warburg in Berlin-Dahlem from 1926 to 1930. Krebs then returned to university clinical work, first at Altona and then as assistant at the University Medical Clinic in Freiburg. In June of 1933 the Nazis terminated his appointment, and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins invited him to work, with a Rockefeller studentship, at the Biochemical Institute at Cambridge. In 1934 Krebs was appointed demonstrator of biochemistry …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Krebs died at Oxford in 1981 at the age of 81.Krebs received many honors in addition to his Nobel Prize. In 1947 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he was awarded its Royal (1954) and Copley (1961) Medals. He delivered its Croonian Lecture in 1963. He was a member of many foreign scientific societies, and he held honorary doctorates from 14 universities. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1965, and he was knighted in 1958. Further Reading There is a biography of Krebs in Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine, 1942-1962 (1964), which also contains his Nobel Lecture. The Krebs cycle is discussed in all textbooks of biochemistry, such as A. White, P. Handler, and E. L. Smith, Principles of Biochemistry (3d ed. 1964), and E. Baldwin, Dynamic Aspects of Biochemistry (4th ed. 1963). A thorough two-volume chronicle of Krebs's life and work is Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Hans Krebs: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism (1993).
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