A Nobel Prize, of course. Such was the case for Hans Krebs, the biochemist who nabbed the award in 1953 for discovering the citric acid cycle, or “Krebs cycle”—the cellular pathway that converts ...

"When we eat food, glucose enters the cells and is oxidized by mitochondria through the Krebs cycle, which is essential to ...

In 1953 he earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle, later known as the Krebs cycle, an explanation of one of the most fundamental processes of life: ...