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Feodor Lynen

1911 - 1979

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Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Feodor Lynen is the 157th most popular chemist (up from 260th in 2019), the 618th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,364th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Chemist.

Feodor Lynen was a German-born biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for his work on the regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Feodor Lynen ranks 157 out of 602. Before him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Robert W. Holley, and Paul D. Boyer. After him are Antoni Grabowski, Katalin Karikó, Ei-ichi Negishi, Georg Wittig, Edmond H. Fischer, and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish.

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Among people born in 1911, Feodor Lynen ranks 32. Before him are Polykarp Kusch, Marshall McLuhan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Tennessee Williams, William Alfred Fowler, and Niels Kaj Jerne. After him are Robert Johnson, Wilhelm Mohnke, Gian Carlo Menotti, Max Frisch, Klaus Fuchs, and Trygve Haavelmo. Among people deceased in 1979, Feodor Lynen ranks 27. Before him are Mustafa Barzani, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Sonia Delaunay, Hanna Reitsch, Agostinho Neto, and Sid Vicious. After him are Nelson Rockefeller, Bertil Ohlin, Werner Forssmann, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Jean Seberg, and Reinhard Gehlen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Feodor Lynen ranks 618 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Hoepner (1886), Emile Berliner (1851), Horst Wessel (1907), Paul Breitner (1951), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710). After him are Hans von Seeckt (1866), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Till Lindemann (1963), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Wolfgang Paul (1913), and Henri Nestlé (1814).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Feodor Lynen ranks 30. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hermann Kolbe (1818), and Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743). After him are Georg Wittig (1897), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Robert Huber (1937), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), and Georg Ernst Stahl (1659).

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