Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (
) was a German
biochemist.
Biography
Feodor Lynen was born in Munich, Germany on .
He started his studies
at the chemistry department of Munich University
in 1930 and graduated in March 1937 under Heinrich Wieland with the work: "On
the Toxic Substances in Amanita". After several years of
lecturing there, Lynen became professor at the Munich
University in 1947. From 1954 onwards he was director of the
Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, which was
merged into the newly founded Max-Planck
Institute of Biochemistry
in 1972.
In 1964 he won the
Nobel Prize in
Medicine and
Physiology together with
Konrad Bloch for their discoveries
concerning the mechanism and regulation of
cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. He gave
his Nobel Lecture on titled "The Pathway from Activated Acetic Acid
to the Terpenes and Fatty Acids".
Fellowship
The
Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation has a fellowship named in his honor.
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