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The biography of one of the world's foremost biochemists, which traces his scientific career and his discoveries of the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The text makes use of five years of interviews with Hans Krebs, and a complete set of Krebs' key laboratory notebooks.
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Reconstructs the investigative pathway and the life of Hans Krebs, from the time of his arrival in England in 1933 until 1937, when he made the discovery for which he is best known--the formulation of the citric acid cycle.
This is the first volume of a comprehensive scientific biography of Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It treats his childhood, his medical education and scientific apprenticeship under Otto Warburg, his emergence as an independent investigator, and his discovery of the urea cycle in 1932. This early achievement, and his discovery of the citric acid cycle, are viewed as foundations for the modern structure of intermediary metabolism. During the writing of this fascinating history, the author had access to a complete set of Krebs' laboratory notebooks that reveal the daily dimensions of scientific creativity. Based in addition on many personal interviews with its subject, the Krebs biography is certain to interest and intrigue biochemists and historians of science alike. Volume 2: Hans Krebs: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism 1933-37, will appear in spring, 1993.
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This survey was written at the invitation of the Editors of the "Ergebnisse der Physiologie". Its aim is to present the more recent progress in the know ledge of biological energy transformations. Since it was intended for a review journal, the reader was taken to be familiar with the fundamentals of current biochemistry, as described in the standard textbooks. It was not the object to compile an extensive collection of facts. The survey is limited to aspects of wider interest, and the main emphasis has been on the general unifying principles which emerge from the great mass of detailed ob servations. The article is reprinted in the hope that it may be useful in this form to advanced student...
Warburg had the key to understanding Cancer and how to defeat it The book is easy to read and anyone can have the prime cause of cancer explained and action items available This biography of Otto Warburg by Sir Hans Krebs, one of Otto Warburg's proteges, and a fellow Nobel laureate, is far more an extended festschrift than a real biography. If you're looking for a short biography this book is for you.