Feodor Lynen

Feodor Lynen
Born
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

6 April 1911
Died6 August 1979(1979-08-06) (aged 68)
Munich, West Germany
EducationUniversity of Munich
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Munich
Max Planck Society
Doctoral advisorHeinrich Otto Wieland
Doctoral studentsDieter Oesterhelt

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen ForMemRS[1] (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːodoːɐ̯ ˈlyːnən] ; 6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist. In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.

  1. ^ a b Krebs, H.; Decker, K. (1982). "Feodor Lynen. 6 April 1911-6 August 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 261–317. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0012. JSTOR 769901.