(1900-81)
German biochemist. Born in Hildesheim, Germany, he studied at Hamburg University. From 1926 to 1930 he was assistant to Otto Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. With the rise of Nazism, he fled to England and worked at Cambridge, and later at Sheffield University where he became professor. In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Later he became professor at Oxford University.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.