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Konrad Emil Bloch

1912 - 2000

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Konrad Emil Bloch (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈblɔx] ; 21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konrad Emil Bloch is the 100th most popular chemist (up from 106th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Poland (up from 137th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Chemist.

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for his discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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Among chemists, Konrad Emil Bloch ranks 100 out of 602. Before him are Edward Adelbert Doisy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Theodore William Richards, William Howard Stein, Arne Tiselius, and Stanford Moore. After him are Vincent du Vigneaud, Joseph Black, Henrik Dam, George de Hevesy, Paul J. Crutzen, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Konrad Emil Bloch ranks 22. Before him are Khalid of Saudi Arabia, János Kádár, Millvina Dean, Carlo Ponti, Jorge Amado, and Gene Kelly. After him are Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, Heinrich Harrer, B. D. Jatti, and Hanna Reitsch. Among people deceased in 2000, Konrad Emil Bloch ranks 14. Before him are Emil Zátopek, Arkan, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Louis Néel, and Roger Vadim. After him are Charles M. Schulz, Pierre Trudeau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Lída Baarová, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Stanley Matthews.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Konrad Emil Bloch ranks 80 out of 1,694. Before him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), and Erich von Falkenhayn (1861). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Horst Köhler (1943), Jan Matejko (1838), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), and Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Konrad Emil Bloch ranks 6. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), and Friedrich Bergius (1884). After him are Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), and Ignacy Mościcki (1867).

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