Konrad Bloch, German-American Biochemist

Konrad Emil Bloch (January 21, 1912 - October 15, 2000) was a German-American biochemist. From 1930 to 1934, he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, but due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936. Bloch received a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1938 from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia from 1939 to 1946. From there he went to the University of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until 1982. Bloch shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 with Feodor Lynen, for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He died in 2000 of congestive heart failure at the age of 88

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