Biochemist, born in Neisse, Germany (now Nyasa, SW Poland). He studied at the Technische Hochschule, Munich, and Columbia University, and emigrated to the USA in 1936. In 1954 he was appointed the first professor of biochemistry at Harvard University, a post he held until his retirement in 1982. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the mechanism of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism, and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1988.
Konrad Emil Bloch (January 21, 1912 – October 15, 2000) was a German-American biochemist.
Biography
Bloch was born in Neisse, Silesia (then part of Germany).
He was educated at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. From there he went to the university of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until his retirement in 1982.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 with Feodor Lynen, for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
He died in Lexington, Massachusetts of congestive heart failure.
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