Konrad Emil Bloch, ForMemRS (21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German American biochemist.
He was a student Carolinum in Nysa and then 1930 to 1934, he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.
He was a student Carolinum in Nysa and then 1930 to 1934, he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.
In 1934, due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936.
In 1934, due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936.
Later he was appointed to the department of biological chemistry at Yale Medical School. In the United States, Bloch enrolled at Columbia University, and received a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1938.
He taught at Columbia from 1939 to 1946.
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 received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. ==Life and career== Bloch was born in Neisse (Nysa), in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia.
After retirement at Harvard, he served as the Mack and Effie Campbell Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the College of Human Sciences at Florida State University. Bloch shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 with Feodor Lynen, for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
Lore Bloch died in 2010 aged 98. ==See also== List of Jewish Nobel laureates ==References== ==External links== Konrad Bloch, Nobel Lecture, The biological synthesis of cholesterol, 11 December 1964 Eugene P.
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.
His Nobel Lecture was "The Biological Synthesis of Cholesterol." In 1985, Bloch became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. Bloch and his wife Lore Teutsch first met in Munich.
Konrad Emil Bloch, ForMemRS (21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German American biochemist.
Konrad died in Burlington, Massachusetts of congestive heart failure in 2000, aged 88.
Lore Bloch died in 2010 aged 98. ==See also== List of Jewish Nobel laureates ==References== ==External links== Konrad Bloch, Nobel Lecture, The biological synthesis of cholesterol, 11 December 1964 Eugene P.
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