The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953
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Hans Adolf Krebs
Prize share: 1/2
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Fritz Albert Lipmann
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 was divided equally between Hans Adolf Krebs "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle" and Fritz Albert Lipmann "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism."
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