Krebs

Krebs definition - medical

Krebs (krĕbz, krĕps), Sir Hans Adolf 1900-1981.

German-born British biochemist who discovered (1936) the Krebs cycle. He shared a 1953 Nobel Prize for investigations into metabolic processes.

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