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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Hans Krebs
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(1900–81, kt 1958) German-born biochemist who came to Britain in 1933. At Freiburg he had identified the 'urea cycle', by which the liver forms urea; at Sheffield he discovered the central process of metabolism (later known as the Krebs cycle), by which cells break down the carbohydrate in food in a succession of changes to release carbon dioxide, water and energy. In 1953 he shared the Nobel prize for medicine with Fritz Lipmann, an American scientist who had worked out important details of the cycle.
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