Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900 – 1981) – Glossary of Names

Glossary of Names [13]


Hermann Blaschko	1900–1993	German-British pharmacologist, student of Otto Meyerhof, later, Professor at Oxford, UK, Fellow of the Royal Society, personal friend of Krebs since 1919

Martin Heidegger	1889–1976	One of the leading German philosophers of the 20th century. Rector of the University of Freiburg, Germany 1933-34, NSDAP member 1933-45

Kurt Henseleit	1908–1973	German physician, received his doctorate with Krebs and worked on the discovery of the urea cycle for his dissertation, later practicing consulting physician in Friedrichshafen, Germany

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins	1861–1947	British biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 “for the discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins”

Fritz Albert Lipmann	1899–1986	German-American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1953 “for his discovery of coenzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism”

Otto Meyerhof	1884–1951	German biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1922 “for his discovery of the relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle”

Carl Neuberg	1877–1956	German biochemist, Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin, Germany until his dismissal in 1934, his successor was Adolf Butenandt

Max Planck	1858–1957	German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 “in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta”

Hermann Staudinger	1881–1965	German Chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953 “for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry”

Albert Szent-Györgyi	1893–1986	Hungarian-American biochemist,, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1937 “for his discoveries in biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid”

Siegfried Thannhauser	1885–1962	Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, specialty: lipid metabolism, brought Krebs to Freiburg and enabled his first independent research, fled to the USA in 1935

Wilhelm von Möllendorf	1887–1944	Professor of Anatomy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, doctoral adviser to Hans Krebs

Otto Warburg	1883–1970	German Biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932 “for the discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory system”