Feodor Lynen
In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.His parents were Wilhelm Lynen, who taught mechanical engineering, and Frieda née Prym, whose father was an industrialist.[2] He started his studies at the chemistry department of Munich University in 1930 and graduated in March 1937 under Heinrich Wieland with the work: "On the Toxic Substances in Amanita".[3] In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.[4][5][6][7] The Nobel Committee felt that this was important because understanding the metabolism of sterols and fatty acids could reveal how cholesterol affects heart disease and stroke.
MunichGerman EmpireWest GermanyUniversity of MunichNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineMax Planck SocietyDoctoral advisorHeinrich Otto WielandDieter OesterheltForMemRSbiochemistKonrad Blochcholesterolfatty acid metabolismMunich UniversityHeinrich WielandOtto WarburgOtto HahnMax-Planck Institute of BiochemistryGesellschaft Deutscher ChemikerbiotinAlexander von Humboldt FoundationAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesNational Academy of SciencesOtto Warburg MedalGrand Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of GermanyAmerican Philosophical SocietyPour le Mérite for Science and ArtAustrian Decoration for Science and ArtKrebs, H.Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal SocietyLaureatesEmil BehringRonald RossNiels FinsenIvan PavlovRobert KochCamillo GolgiSantiago Ramón y CajalAlphonse LaveranÉlie MetchnikoffPaul EhrlichEmil KocherAlbrecht KosselAllvar GullstrandAlexis CarrelCharles RichetRóbert BárányJules BordetAugust KroghArchibald HillOtto MeyerhofFrederick BantingJohn MacleodWillem EinthovenJohannes FibigerJulius Wagner-JaureggCharles NicolleChristiaan EijkmanFrederick Gowland HopkinsKarl LandsteinerCharles Scott SherringtonEdgar AdrianThomas MorganGeorge WhippleGeorge MinotWilliam MurphyHans SpemannHenry DaleOtto LoewiAlbert Szent-GyörgyiCorneille HeymansGerhard DomagkHenrik DamEdward DoisyJoseph ErlangerHerbert GasserAlexander FlemingErnst ChainHoward FloreyHermann MullerCarl CoriGerty CoriBernardo HoussayPaul MüllerWalter HessAntónio Egas MonizEdward KendallTadeusz ReichsteinPhilip HenchMax TheilerSelman WaksmanHans KrebsFritz LipmannJohn EndersThomas WellerFrederick RobbinsHugo TheorellAndré CournandWerner ForssmannDickinson W. RichardsDaniel BovetGeorge BeadleEdward TatumJoshua LederbergSevero OchoaArthur KornbergFrank BurnetPeter MedawarGeorg von BékésyFrancis CrickJames WatsonMaurice WilkinsJohn EcclesAlan HodgkinAndrew HuxleyFrançois JacobAndré LwoffJacques MonodFrancis RousCharles B. HugginsRagnar GranitHaldan HartlineGeorge WaldRobert W. HolleyHar Khorana