Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin Gerhard Krebs ( born June 6, 1918 in Lansing, Iowa, † December 21, 2009 in Seattle, Washington) was an American biochemist.

Cancer studied since 1936, medicine and chemistry at the University of Illinois and at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1948 he became a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In 1978 he received a Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Albert Lasker Award for 1989 Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize - 1992 and together with Edmond H. Fischer received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine " for their discovery of the mechanisms that the metabolic processes in organisms control ".