Hans Krebs was a biochemist, famous for his discorvery of the "trycarboxilic acids cycle", also named "Krebs cycle".

Hans Krebs was born at Hildesheim (Germany) on August 25th, 1900. He studied medicine and worked in Germany until June 1933, when the National Socialist Government terminated his appointment. Invited by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, he went to England, where he continued his scientific work. He died in 1981.

Krebs won the 1953 Nobel prize of Physiology and Medicine.

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• Nobel e-Museum.
• Esperimental Biosciences.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica.