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Lynen

American  
[lee-nen] / ˈli nɛn /

noun

  1. Feodor 1911–1979, German biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.


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“With the investigation completed, Clariant’s Chief Financial Officer Stephan Lynen has decided to step down by 1 July 2022 to allow for a fresh start,” it said.

From Reuters

Jany is being replaced by Stephan Lynen, currently the head of the Muttenz-based chemicals maker’s additives business unit.

From Reuters

“You see it in the pictures and you think it’s Photoshopped - but it’s real,” said Lukas Lynen, an 18-year-old tourist from Mexico.

From Washington Times

It shows her buying “russettes,” “white clothe,” “kerseys,” “gryce,” “Holand cloth and other lynen cloth,” paying for the spinning of hemp and flax, for the weaving of cloth, for the dressing of calves’ skins and currying of leather, and for 3000 “pynnes of dyuerse sortes.”

From Project Gutenberg

Feodor Lynen, 53, head of biochemistry at the University of Munich and director of the Max-Planck-Institut f�r Zellchemie, is the son of a chemistry professor and married to the daughter of another, Heinrich Wieland, who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1927.

From Time Magazine Archive