Reminiscences and Reflections by Hans Krebs

by Hans Adolf Krebs

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, Hans Krebs; in collaboration with Anne Martin. vii, 298 p., 8 p. of plates, ill. Very good condition in very good dust wrapper. Previous owners name on front end paper.

Hardcover

First published April 15, 1982

About the author

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981) was a German-born British physician and biochemist. He was the pioneer scientist in study of cellular respiration, a biochemical pathway in cells for production of energy. He is best known for his discoveries of two important chemical reactions in the body, namely the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic reactions that produces energy in cells, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. With Hans Kornberg, he also discovered the glyoxylate cycle, which is a slight variation of the citric acid cycle found in plants, bacteria, protists, and fungi.

Reviews

[Sheryl McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an exceptional story of a German scientist, a secular Jew, who believed that nothing bad would happen to him or his family during WWII. How close did we come to not having his mind and knowledge that catapulted medicine into a new modern era? The Krebs Cycle, named the Citric Cycle by the Germans who pushed him out of the country so he could survive, was IMMEDIATELY helpful to researchers and doctors all over the world.