Feodor Lynen was a well-respected biochemist whose work led to a better understanding of how cells make and use cholesterol and other materials necessary for life. His discovery of the structure of acetyl-coenzyme A led to a detailed description of the...

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen's work led to a better understanding of how cells make and use cholesterol and other materials necessary for life. His discovery of the structure of acetyl-coenzyme A led to a detailed description of the steps of several...

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was born in Munich, Germany, on April 6, 1911, the seventh of eight children, to Wilhelm and Frieda (Prym) Lynen. Lynen showed an early interest in his older brother's chemistry an eventually, enrolled in the Department of...

1911-1979 German biochemist who specialized in the study of lipid metabolism. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize with Konrad Bloch for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Lynen carried out research...

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German...

Konrad Bloch, 88, a retired Harvard University biochemist who was a co-winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, died Oct. 15 at a hospital in Burlington, Mass. He had congestive heart failure. He shared the Nobel with Feodor Lynen, who...

Konrad Bloch Nobel laureate Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Boston -- Konrad Bloch, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1964 for studies that led to the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs, has died at 88. Bloch, a professor at Harvard for three...