The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964
Awarded on: 1964-10-15
"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Konrad Bloch
Born: 1912-01-21 in Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland)
Gender: male
Field: German biochemist (1912–2000)
Biography
Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.