Back Feodor Lynen AN فيودور لينن Arabic فيودور لينن ARZ فئودور فلیکس کونراد لینن AZB Feodor Lynen BAR Феадор Лінен Byelorussian ফিওডর লিনেন Bengali/Bangla Feodor Lynen Catalan فیۆدۆر لاینین CKB Feodor Lynen Czech
Feodor Lynen ForMemRS | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen 6 April 1911 |
| Died | 6 August 1979 (aged 68) Munich, West Germany |
| Education | University of Munich |
| Known for | Studies of the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Munich Max Planck Society |
| Doctoral advisor | Heinrich Otto Wieland |
| Doctoral students | Dieter Oesterhelt |
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen ForMemRS[1] (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.
- ^ Krebs, H.; Decker, K. (1982). "Feodor Lynen. 6 April 1911-6 August 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 261–317. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0012. JSTOR 769901.