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Konrad Bloch
Full Name of the recipient | Konrad Bloch |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1964 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Feodor Lynen (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | Neisse (now Nysa), Germany (now known as Poland POL) |
Date of Birth | 21 January 1912 |
Age at the time of Award | 51 years |
Place of Death | Burlington, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 15 October 2000 |