Edwin G. Krebs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edwin G. Krebs

American biochemist

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1918

Place of Birth: Lansing, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2009

Profession: chemist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Edwin Gerhard Krebs (June 6, 1918 – December 21, 2009) was an American biochemist.
He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H.
Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Edwin Krebs is not to be confused with Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), who was also a Nobel Prize–winning biochemist and who discovered the citric acid cycle, which is also known as the Krebs cycle.