Hans Adolf Krebs
Hans Adolf Krebs ( born August 25, 1900 in Hildesheim, † November 22, 1981 in Oxford ) was a German and later British physician and biochemist. He worked from 1945 as a professor at the University of Sheffield and was awarded for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in 1953 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Life
Hans Krebs into a Jewish family of doctors. He was born in 1900 as son of Georg Krebs and his wife Alma in Hildesheim. After visiting the school Andreanum in Hildesheim, he studied medicine from 1918 to 1923 at the University of Göttingen, Albert-Ludwigs -Universität Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin and Munich. In 1925, he earned his doctoral degree at the University of Hamburg, then studied for a year chemistry in Berlin, where he (now Max Planck Institute ) was used for Biology later and 1930 Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. After 1930 he worked in Hamburg -Altona as a doctor and in 1931 at the University Hospital of Freiburg as an assistant to Siegfried Thannhauser, where he in 1932 qualified as a professor until the teaching license was revoked as a Jew in 1933 by the " racial laws " ( Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ). He fled to England and studied at Cambridge University once again, now biochemistry.
Hans Adolf Krebs married in 1938 Margaret Fieldhouse. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter were born. His son John Krebs is a professor of zoology at Oxford and member of the House of Lords. Hans died of cancer in 1981 in Oxford.
Quotes
" Hitler has made me a Jew. "
Services
In 1935 he became a lecturer in 1945 professor of pharmacology at the University of Sheffield. In 1954 he was appointed to the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. Cancer ' area of interest was the intermediary metabolism. In 1932, he discovered - even in Freiburg - together with Kurt Henseleit urea cycle ( Krebs-Henseleit cycle) and in 1937 the citric acid cycle, which is today often called the Krebs cycle. For the latter discovery won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (New York, together with Fritz Albert Lipmann, ) awarded.
Honors
The Society of Friends of Hannover Medical School Foundation awards annually donated by Ernst-August Schrader and endowed with 10,000 Euros Sir Hans Krebs Prize for an outstanding, published in a scientific journal work of basic medical science.
Trivia
The journal Nature rejected in 1937 from cancer ' work for the citric acid cycle. The Magazine justified this by stating that there was already enough letters before, at 7 to 8 weeks to fill with correspondence, and added that it was ' currently undesirable to accept additional letters. ' ( ' It is undesirable to accept Further letters at the present time. '). Cancer was compelled in consequence to publish his findings in the far less popular magazine Enzymologia in the Netherlands. 1988, seven years after cancer ' death, an anonymous editor published in Nature a letter in which he described the rejection of the work of cancer as the " egregious error " of the journal.
Writings (selection )
- My love for Hildesheim has never stopped. Note: Helga Stein. Lax, Hildesheim 1990.
- Reminiscences and reflections. Clarendon Press, Oxford; Oxford University Press, New York, c1981.
- As I was driven out of Germany - Documents with comments. In: Journal of Medical History. Volume 15, Issue 4, 1980, pp. 357-377.