Hans Krebs M.D
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Name: Hans Adolf Krebs
Birth: 25 August 1900, Hildesheim, Germany
Death: 22 November 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom
Institution: Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Award: “For his discovery of the citric acid cycle”
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Education: M.D. University of Hamburg 1925
Physician, Biochemist. Discovered citric acid cycle in which nutrients are converted to chemical energy molecules which are converted to ATP used in chemical processes. Krebs-Henseleit cycle.
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1. Krebs cycle also known as citric acid cycle and The tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle).
2. Krebs-Henseleit cycle