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...Bloch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. He shared the award with Feodor Lynen, a biochemist from Munich. The men received the prize "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism," according to the transcript of the award presentation speech...
Corey, a colleague of Bloch's for 40 years, said he remembers him as "an example of a superlative scientist and extremely nice person...
Corey said Bloch's work was "interesting in the scientific view and had beneficial implications for human well-being...
Born in 1912 in Neisse, Germany to Jewish parents, Bloch had to flee because of religious and racial persecution. He graduated from Munich Technische Hochschule...
Before entering the Harvard faculty, Bloch taught at the University of Chicago from...