Hans Kornberg
Hans Kornberg · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who elucidated key metabolic pathways including the glyoxylate cycle.
1928, Herford, Germany — 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Germany · United Kingdom · United States
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Kornberg was a biochemist who elucidated key metabolic pathways, including the glyoxylate cycle that allows organisms to use simple compounds for growth, and became a leading figure in British biochemistry. He was Jewish, born in Germany, and escaped the Nazis on a Kindertransport to England, later holding professorships at Leicester, Cambridge and Boston University.
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Biochemist who elucidated key metabolic pathways including the glyoxylate cycle.
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