Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
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He mapped the hidden chemical loops that turn a meal into motion — the cycles inside nearly every living cell that extract energy from food and oxygen. The Nobel came in 1953, but the Krebs cycle had already rewritten the textbook.
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Hans Adolf Krebs was born in Germany on 25 August 1900 and trained as a physician and biochemist before the war pushed him to Britain. He spent years tracing how cells metabolize nutrients, first cracking the urea cycle — the body's way of disposing nitrogen waste — then the citric acid cycle, the central engine of cellular respiration that allows oxygen-breathing organisms to harvest vastly more energy than fermentation ever could. That second discovery, often called the Krebs cycle, earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. Later, working with Hans Kornberg, he identified…
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