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Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen6.4.1911

Wikipedia (13 Mar 2013, 14:22)
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (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.


Biography

Feodor Lynen was born in Munich, Germany on 6 April 1911. He started his studies at the chemistry department of Munich University in 1930 and graduated in March 1937 under Heinrich Wieland with the work: "On the Toxic Substances in Amanita". After several years of lecturing there, Lynen became professor at the Munich University in 1947. From 1954 onwards he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, which was merged into the newly founded Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in 1972.

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.[2][3][4][5] He gave his Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1964 titled "The Pathway from Activated Acetic Acid to the Terpenes and Fatty Acids".


Fellowship

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has a fellowship named in his honor.


Honours and awards

- 1964: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Konrad Bloch) "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids"
- 1965: Grand Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1967: Norman Medal of the German Society for Fat Research
- 1971: Pour le Mérite for Science and Art
- 1972: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
   
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