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“Everything Now Seemed So Simple to Me …︁” : Feodor Lynen (1911 – 1979), a Hero of Biochemistry
Author(s) -
Will Heike,
Hamprecht Bernd
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201106003
Subject(s) - hero , mechanism (biology) , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , art , epistemology , literature
The enigma of “activated acetic acid”, the acetylated form of coenzyme A that participates in key metabolic processes, was solved by Feodor Lynen in 1950. The worldwide interest in this discovery led Lynen and biochemistry in Germany back into the world of international science. Lynen received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for his basic “discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism”.