Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Infobox Scientist
name = Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

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birth_date = 6 April 1911
birth_place = Munich, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1979|8|6|1911|4|6|df=y
death_place = Munich, Germany
nationality = German
prizes = Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)

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

Biography

Feodor Lynen was born in Munich, Germany on 6 April 1911. He started his studies at the chemistry department of Munich University in 1930 and graduated in March 1937 under Heinrich Wieland with the work: "On the Toxic Substances in Amanita". After several years of lecturing there, Lynen became professor at the Munich University in 1947. From 1954 onwards he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, which was merged into the newly founded Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in 1972.

In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism [Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13805544
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publication-date=1960 Jun 3
year=1960
title=beta-Hydroxy-beta-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A reductase, cleavage and condensing enzymes in relation to cholesterol formation in rat liver.
volume=40
issue=
periodical=Biochim. Biophys. Acta
pages=491-501] [Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4296920
last=Lynen
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publication-date=1966 Jul 8
year=1966
title= [The biochemical basis of the biosynthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids]
volume=78
issue=27
periodical=Wien. Klin. Wochenschr.
pages=489-97] [Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5810824
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last3=Lynen
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publication-date=1969 Aug
year=1969
title=Regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis in rat liver: diurnal changes of activity and influence of bile acids.
volume=133
issue=1
periodical=Arch. Biochem. Biophys.
pages=11-21] [Citation
id = PMID:5547468
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5547468
last=Hamprecht
first=B
last2=Nüssler
first2=C
last3=Waltinger
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last4=Lynen
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publication-date=1971 Jan 1
year=1971
title=Influence of bile acids on the activity of rat liver 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase. 1. Effect of bile acids in vitro and in vivo.
volume=18
issue=1
periodical=Eur. J. Biochem.
pages=10-4] . He gave his Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1964 titled The Pathway from Activated Acetic Acid to the Terpenes and Fatty Acids.

Fellowship

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has a fellowship named in his honor.

References

External links

* [http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1964/lynen-bio.html Nobel biography]
* [http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_deu/index.htm Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships]