Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Sir Hans Kornberg

Name: Hans Kornberg Born: 14 February 1928 Deceased: 16 December 2019

Main areas of research: Elucidation of novel metabolic pathways and their control, Identification and characterization of anaplerotic reactions in microorganisms, and regulation of the processes that effect the entry into micro-organisms of carbohydrates

Sir Hans is best known for his discovery of the Glyoxylate Cycle, a metabolic route that effects the net conversion of fatty acids to carbohydrates in many microorganisms and plant seeds, and for identifying (and coining the phrase) "anaplerotic sequences" in . He is currently studying the genetic control and biochemical mechanisms whereby fructose is utilized by E. coli.

Academic and Professional Career since 1995 University Professor & Professor of Biology, University, USA

1975 - 1995 Professor of , Cambridge University, UK

1960 - 1975 Professor of Biochemistry, Leicester University, UK

1955 - 1960 Member of MRC Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism, Oxford, UK

1946 - 1953 Studium an der Universität Sheffield, UK

Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees

1991 - 1994 President, International Union of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

1991 - 1992 President of the Association for Science Education

1990 - 1995 (First) President of The Biochemical Society

1978 - 1981 Vice-Chairman

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1 1977 - 1990 Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institut für Ernährungsphysiologie, Dortmund (FRG)

1977 - 1981 Member of Council of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)

1975 - 1977 Member of Council, The Royal Society

Honours and Awarded Memberships

1997 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

1995 Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa

1993 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society

1992 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

1990 Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge

1989 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London

1989 Member, Academia Europaea

1987 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1986 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA

1982 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

1982 Honorary Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford

1981 Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society

1980 Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford

1978 Appointed Knight Bachelor since 1974 D.Sc. Cincinnati, Warwick, Sheffield, Leeds, LaTrobe; D.U. Essex; Dr. med. Leipzig; LL.D., Dundee

1973 Otto Warburg Medal, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM),

1972 Honorary Member, American Society of Biological Chemists; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

1965 Fellow of the Institute of Biology and of the Royal Society

1963 Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society, UK

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Sir Hans is best known for his discovery of the Glyoxylate Cycle, a metabolic route that effects the net conversion of fatty acids to carbohydrates in many microorganisms and plant seeds, and for identifying (and coining the phrase) "anaplerotic sequences" in metabolism. He is currently studying the genetic control and biochemical mechanisms whereby fructose is utilized by E. coli. Sir Hans was Professor of Biochemistry in the (UK) from 1960 - 75, and in the (UK) from 1975 - 95; from 1982 - 95, he was also the 34th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

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