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Hans Adolf Krebs

1900 - 1981

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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS (, German: [hans ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈkʁeːps] ; 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981) was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the cells of nearly all organisms, including humans, other than anaerobic microorganisms, namely the citric acid cycle and the urea cycle. The former, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", is the sequence of metabolic reactions that allows cells of oxygen-respiring organisms to obtain far more ATP from the food they consume than anaerobic processes such as glycolysis can supply; and its discovery earned Krebs a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Adolf Krebs is the 30th most popular chemist (up from 81st in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Germany (up from 505th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Chemist.

Hans Adolf Krebs was a German scientist and professor of medicine. He is most famous for discovering the citric acid cycle, a series of chemical reactions that produce energy in cells.

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Among chemists, Hans Adolf Krebs ranks 30 out of 602. Before him are George Washington Carver, Fritz Haber, John Fenn, Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. After him are Otto Wallach, Alexander R. Todd, Otto Hahn, Robert Robinson, Henri Moissan, and Richard Willstätter.

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Among people born in 1900, Hans Adolf Krebs ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Himmler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Erich Fromm, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, and Charles Francis Richter. After him are Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Hans Frank. Among people deceased in 1981, Hans Adolf Krebs ranks 5. Before him are Bob Marley, Anwar Sadat, Jacques Lacan, and Albert Speer. After him are Moshe Dayan, Bill Haley, Frederica of Hanover, Claude Auchinleck, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, and Odd Hassel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Adolf Krebs ranks 156 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Alfred Wegener (1880), Friedrich Merz (1955), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Theodor W. Adorno (1903), and Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742). After him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Lothair I (795), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Walter Gropius (1883), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), and Agrippina the Younger (15).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hans Adolf Krebs ranks 8. Before him are August Kekulé (1829), Adolf Windaus (1876), Ernst Chain (1906), Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), and Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742). After him are Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Otto Diels (1876), and Robert Bunsen (1811).

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