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Konrad E. Bloch was born in 1912 in Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland). He earned a degree in chemistry in Munich, and moved to Switzerland in 1934. In 1936, he came to the United States, earning a doctorate in biochemistry at Columbia University, where he began his research on cholesterol. From 1954 until his retirement in 1982 he was the Higgins professor of biochemistry at Harvard. In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died on Oct. 15, 2000 in Burlington, Mass.
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Konrad Bloch, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3008.