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Born August 25, 1900 • Hildesheim • Germany
Died November 22, 1981 (aged 81) • Oxford • England • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1961) • Nobel Prize (1953)
Subjects Of Study tricarboxylic acid cycle • urea cycle

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