Edwin G. Krebs Summary

Edwin G. Krebs 1918- American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in medicine with Edmond H. Fischer for their discovery of how the body breaks glycogen down into glucose. This process, called ... Read more

Edwin Gerhard Krebs was born to William Carl Krebs and Louisa Helena Stegeman Krebs in Lansing, Iowa, on June 6, 1918. He was the third of four children. His father, a Presbyterian minister, died whil... Read more

In the 1950s Edwin G. Krebs and his longtime associate Edmond Fischer discovered reversible protein phosphorylation , a fundamental biological mechanism. Together Krebs and Fisher's work illuminates t... Read more