Hans Krebs: Volume 1: The Formation of a Scientific Life, 1900-1933

This is the first volume of a comprehensive scientific biography of
Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It treats his childhood, his medical education and scientific apprenticeship under
Otto Warburg, his emergence as an independent investigator, and his discovery of the urea cycle in 1932. This early achievement, and his discovery of the citric acid cycle, are viewed as foundations for the modern structure of intermediary metabolism. During the writing of this fascinati…