Krebs

[kreps; English krebz]

noun

Sir Hans A·dolf

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

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“A lot of these guys are making thousands of dollars a day,” Krebs said.
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Once before I had visited Krebs in that lodging-house in Cambridge long ago with something of the same feelings.
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The girl was stranded without any money at Galantza, and Krebs brought her on here.
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I related the circumstances of my running across Krebs, speaking of having known him at Harvard.
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Krebs accepted Carson and promised to bring him forward at ten minutes' notice, should the emergency arise.
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There was an exaltation in Krebs's voice that arrested my attention, and made me look at him again.
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British Dictionary definitions for krebs

Krebs

noun

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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Medicine definitions for krebs

Krebs

[krĕbz, krĕps]Sir Hans Adolf 1900-1981

German-born British biochemist who discovered (1936) the Krebs cycle. He shared a 1953 Nobel Prize for investigations into metabolic processes.

Science definitions for krebs

Krebs

[krĕbz]Sir Hans Adolf 1900-1981

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.