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...Feodor Lynen, SC.D., Nobel Prize biochemist. An inspiring teacher, who, by his intellectual curiosity and example, has influenced and stimulated generations of students...
...Bloch becomes the third Harvard scientist in four years to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Bloch's work on the synthesis of cholesterol in the living cell has taken almost 25 years and has occupied virtually all of his professional attention. Working independently, he and Feodor Lynen, the co-winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess...
Bloch and Lynen did not collaborate formally, although they did correspond, and have met at nearly a dozen conferences. "There has been continuous interaction and supplementation," Block says, "but we have each run our own laboratory and conducted our own experiments." Recently, Lynen has begun to investigate the role of vitamins in the synthesis of fats while Bloch has stayed with the problem that has structured so much of his career. "We know that cholesterol is found in almost all living cells, but we don't know. what it's really...
Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
...While Hollywood was planning some new caprice for Jackie Cooper, Berlin was turning out such cinematic masterpieces as Maedchen in Uniform and Emil und die Detektiv (not yet released in the U. S.). This French production (spoken in French with English subtitles) and the delicate performance of young Robert Lynen measure up to the high German standard...