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Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
1911Apr, 6

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːodoːɐ̯ ˈlyːnən] (listen); 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.

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