Sir Hans Krebs and the Krebs Cycle

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was born in Hildesheim in northern Germany in 1900. Following in his father’s footsteps, he studied medicine before deciding his future lay in academic research rather than medical practice.

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: the conversion of food into energy within a cell.

Discover the Krebs cycle and how his legacy lives on today at the University of Sheffield.