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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs



Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf (1900–81), German-born British biochemist awarded (with F.A. Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle, or Krebs cycle, the principle means by which living organisms produce energy.



See also: Biochemistry.

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