Today’s Jewish Birthday: Konrad Bloch

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Konrad Bloch, 1964 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Konrad Bloch (January 21, 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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