Krebs

[ kreps; English krebz ]

noun
  1. Sir Hans A·dolf [sur hahns ah-dawlf; English hanz ad-olf, ey-dolf], /sɜr hɑns ˈɑ dɔlf; English hænz ˈæd ɒlf, ˈeɪ dɒlf/, 1900–81, German biochemist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.

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Krebs

/ (krɛbz) /


noun
  1. Sir Hans Adolf. 1900–81, British biochemist, born in Germany, who shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1953) for the discovery of the Krebs cycle

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Scientific definitions for Krebs

Krebs

[ krĕbz ]


  1. German-born British biochemist who in 1936 discovered the process that came to be known as the Krebs cycle. For this work he shared with American biochemist Fritz Lipmann the 1953 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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