German biochemist born in Munich and died in the same city, researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Zellchemie, Munich, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1964) with the German chemist Konrad Emil Bloch of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, for discoveries in the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids. Son of Wilhelm Lynen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Munich Technische Hochschule, and of Frieda, daughter of industrialist Gustav Prym, he was educated in Munich, and he enrolled in chemistry (1930) at the University of Munich, where he studied with such names as Heinrich Wieland (Nobel, 1927), Otto Hönigschmidt, Kasimir Fajans and Walter Gerlach. He graduated (1937) with the work On the Toxic Substances in Amanita. That same year he married Eva Wieland, with whom he had five children: Peter (1938), Annemarie (1941), Susanne (1945), Heinrich and Eva-Maria (1946).
He became assistant professor (1942), assistant professor (1947), and professor of biochemistry (1953) at the University of Munich. He became (1954) head of the Max-Planck-Institut für Zellchemie, where he went on to research the chemistry of metabolic processes in living cells and died in Munich. In addition to the Nobel, he received the Neuberg Medal from the American Society of European Chemists and Pharmacists (1954), the Liebig Commemorative Medal from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1955), the Carus Medal of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (1961) and the Otto Warburg Medal of the Gesellschaft für Physiologische Chemie (1963).
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He was named President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1972). Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Munich, and of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, in Halle, honorary member of the Harvey Society, in New York, of the American Society of Biological Chemists, Washington, Asociacion Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia, Caracas, foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, and honorary doctor of the University's faculty of medicine of Freiburg.
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