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Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

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Konrad Emil Bloch

German biochemist (1912–2000)

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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October 15

Day of the year

October 15 is the 288th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 77 days remain until the end of the year.
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