Konrad Emil Bloch

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist, born in 1912, who studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and, in the United States, took his doctorate in biochemistry at Columbia University in 1938. He went on to the University of Chicago and in 1954 to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, a post he held until 1982. In 1964 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Feodor Lynen for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.