The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992
Awarded on: 1992-10-12
"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"
Affiliations:
- University of Washington – Seattle, WA, USA
Edmond H. Fischer
Born: 1920-04-06 in Shanghai, China
Gender: male
Field: American-Swiss biochemist (1920–2021)
Biography
Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.