The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953

Hans Adolf Krebs

Prize share: 1/2

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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