Awards & Winners

Konrad Emil Bloch

Date of Birth 21-January-1912
Place of Birth Nysa
(Poland, Opole Voivodeship, Nysa County, Gmina Nysa)
Nationality United States of America, Germany
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch, ForMemRS was a German American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Awards by Konrad Emil Bloch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Konrad Emil Bloch.

1988


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents.)

1964


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism)