“but the Krebs family... has decided that, rather than the medal sitting in a dusty case, why not make it work for science again.”
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Hans Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS 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 o…
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science · British biochemist (1900–1981) · biochemist · physician · university teacher · Whitley Professor of Biochemistry · physiologist · biologist · also Hans Krebs, Hans Krebs (biochemist), Hans Adolf Krebs, Hans A. Krebs, H. A. Krebs, H A Krebs
Born 25 August 1900 · Died 22 November 1981 · Q57191
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2026· 17 entries
“d give everything he had to get her back, but he knew he couldn”
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“Yes sir. I’ll be right there, sir.”
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“t get him in. If Paul was hurt by being treated so selfishly —it felt as if Led Zeppelin wanted an audience with the King all by themselves— he didn”
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“As a musicologist — and I consider myself one — there was always a great deal of respect for Elvis, especially during his Sun sessions. As a black people, we all knew that. In fact, Eminem is the new Elvis because, number one, he had the respect for black music that Elvis had”
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“No, I want the girls in this. I want them to be singing. He was a gentle giant. Actress and singer Darlene Love, i) in an interview for”
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“I went to the dentist with him on Monday night around 9:30. We were getting ready for the tour and we talked about the songs we’d use. But we never did rehearse”
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“You have to be kidding me, right?”
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“Well, if you are so intent on helping me, why don”
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“I wonder if you would mind standing beside the camera and let me sing to you when I do my close ups”
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“the incendiary atomic musical firebrand loner who conquered the western world. Gwen Gibson, in an article”
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“Elvis is actually how I got into music, since I was a kid, I was cutting school pretending I was sick and I would lie at home watching old movies, and”
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“I am the Deputy Sheriff of Memphis. I am commanded by the Presley family to invite you to visit with the deceased. He then took me by the elbow eventually ushering me through the doors to a scene I shall never forget. In the hall, a coffin had been placed on trestles. Behind it, in a sombre arc, stood members of the Presley family, including Elvis”
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“No. Really. So, we went to his show, but my attitude was like”
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“s in a shadow box with the nametag in the glass and the autographed program displayed. His DNA has never been washed out of that glass — and never will be. And the man who presented Elvis his award, George H. W. Bush, became America”
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“That would be very nice, sir. No one has offered to take me out in Paris.”
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“The Basie band can’t play in 3/4.”
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2023· 1 entry
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2018· 1 entry
“t just a fan, I was his brother; Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland, We sang”
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2013· 1 entry
“Cosas que siempre quise contar”
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2008· 1 entry
A new building for the Department of Biochemistry was constructed, on which a plaque was placed on 20 May 2013 by the Association of Jewish Refugees
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2007· 1 entry
“, referring to Presley's early SUN Records label recordings and their influence on the Liverpool rock and roll scene”
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2005· 1 entry
“Whether one is an Elvis fan or not there is no doubting that no church in Grimsby or any other town, possibly, has ever seen anything like it before, the most moving and joyful service I have ever officiated at. Some people used to think rock and roll was the devil's music but Elvis was a devout Christian.”
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1992· 1 entry
“d “get two for the price of one”
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1990· 1 entry
The Federation of European Biochemical Societies instituted the Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal, which was endowed by the Lord Rank Centre for Research
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1981· 2 entries
Died 1981-11-22.
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In Oxford, where he had spent 13 years of his career from 1954 until his retirement in 1967 at the University of Oxford
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
“The Great American Popular Singers”
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1972).
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1969· 1 entry
Won Otto Warburg Medal (1969).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Hildesheim (1966).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1966).
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1963· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1963).
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1961· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960).
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1958· 2 entries
Received the Gold Medal of the Netherlands Society for Physics, Medical Science and Surgery
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And was elected Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University, in 1979
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1957· 3 entries
“The kid stays in the picture. And anybody who doesn’t like it can quit.”
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He, with Hans Kornberg, found that there were additional crucial enzymes
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“Santa Claus Is Back in Town.”
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1956).
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“Hey man, we all love what you”
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1954· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1954).
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As Whitley Professor of Biochemistry, the post he held until his retirement in 1967
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1953· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the citric acid cycle.
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1953).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953).
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "discovery of the citric acid cycle
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1947· 1 entry
By Fritz Albert Lipmann was another major contribution
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1944· 1 entry
The British Medical Research Council established the MRC Unit for Cell Metabolism Research at Sheffield, and Krebs was appointed the Director
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1938· 1 entry
And Krebs became its first Head, and eventually a Professor in 1945
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1937· 1 entry
German biochemists Franz Knoop and Carl Martinus had demonstrated a series of reactions using citrate that produced oxaloacetate
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1934· 1 entry
And in 1935 the University of Sheffield offered him a post of Lecturer in Pharmacology, with a more spacious laboratory and double the salary
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1932· 2 entries
Krebs worked out the outlines of the urea cycle with a medical student Kurt Henseleit at the University of Freiburg
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Published the basic chemical reactions of the urea cycle, which established his scientific reputation
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1930· 1 entry
With 16 publications to his credit, his mentor Warburg urged him to move on and he took up the position of Assistant in the Department of Medicine at the Municipal Hospital in Altona (now part of Hamburg)
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1926· 1 entry
Krebs joined Otto Heinrich Warburg as a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Dahlem, Berlin
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1923–1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Studied at the Department of Chemistry at the Pathological Institute of the Charité Hospital, in Berlin, for training in chemistry and biochemistry
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1923· 2 entries
Published his first scientific paper on a tissue staining technique
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Studied at University of Freiburg (1919–1923).
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1919· 3 entries
Studied at University of Göttingen (1918–1919).
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Transferred to the University of Freiburg
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Studied at University of Hamburg (1919).
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-08-25.
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