Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Hans Adolf Krebs concerning Pontecorvo's research on mutants of Aspergillus nidulans

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/3/1/17
• Dates of Creation:Jan 1951
• Physical Description:
  2 letters (2 pages)

• Administrative / Biographical History

  In 1953 Krebs won the Nobel Prize, along with Fritz Lipman, for their identification of citric acid cycle, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells (also known as the Krebs cycle).

• Personal Names

  Krebs, Hans Adolf, 1900-1981, physician, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner,