Feodor Lynen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Feodor Lynen

German biochemist

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1911

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1979

Profession: chemist, biochemist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist.
In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.