Dr. Edwin Krebs' scientific curiosity led to 1992 Nobel Prize
Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering a biological regulatory mechanism in cells, died Monday, Dec. 21, in Seattle. He was 91.
Krebs joined the faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1948, two years after the school opened. He spent most of his career at the UW. For decades after his retirement as professor emeritus of pharmacology and biochemistry, he walked regularly from his home to his UW lab to conduct research and meet with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He was an impeccable gentleman with a ready smile who liked a good story.
Read more about Krebs' work in a retrospective from Science magazine >
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