Konrad Emil Bloch

Konrad Emil Bloch ( born January 21, 1912 in Neisse; † 15 October 2000 in Lexington, Massachusetts ) was a German - American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Life

Konrad Bloch, the son of Jewish parents Fritz Bloch and Henna (nee Striemer ), began in 1930 with the study of chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, where he soon turned to organic chemistry. After his graduation, he was hospitalized Nazi persecution in 1934 left Germany and found work at the Swiss Research Institute in Davos. In 1936 he immigrated to the United States then. At Columbia University under Hans T. Clarke, he received his doctorate in 1938 and worked there as a research professor until 1946. He then became a professor of biochemistry at the University of Chicago. From 1954 to 1982 he worked as the first occupant of a Chair of Biochemistry at Harvard University in Cambridge

In 1964 he received together with Feodor Lynen from the Max Planck Institute in Munich in equal shares, then doped with 220,000 D- Mark Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Bloch was able to identify the process in which fatty acid is converted to cholesterol in the human body in his work on the regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Through the research of two scientists who have their research independently operated significant basis for therapies for cardiovascular disease and for cholesterol-lowering drugs were laid.

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