Konrad Emil Bloch Net Worth

Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for his independent discoveries related to the mechanism and control of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. He had to flee Nazi Germany and took refuge in Switzerland and later America, eventually becoming a naturalized American citizen. His research work in America included the complex procedures applied by animal cells to produce cholesterol, the significance of cholesterol in cells of animals, the analysis of the twenty-seven carbon atoms present in cholesterol molecule, the conversion of acetate to cholesterol, and the metabolism of olefinic fatty acids and the antioxidant glutathione. His work laid the foundation for further research on the analysis and cure of common ailments.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Biochemist
Birth Year 1912
Birth Place Neisse (Nysa), Silesia, Prussia, German Empire, American
Age 108 YEARS OLD
Died On October 15, 2000 (aged 88)
Birth Sign Aquarius
Awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

💰 Net worth

Konrad Emil Bloch, a renowned American biochemist, is projected to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M in 2024. Bloch's groundbreaking work in the field of biochemistry has contributed significantly to our understanding of lipid metabolism and the biosynthesis of cholesterol. His research has earned him numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964. As a highly respected scientist, his net worth reflects his accomplishments and recognition in the scientific community.

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Biography/Timeline

1930

Bloch was born in Neisse (Nysa), in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. He was the second child of middle-class parents Hedwig (Striemer) and Frederich D. "Fritz" Bloch. From 1930 to 1934, he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. In 1934, due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936. Later he was appointed to the department of biological chemistry at Yale Medical School.

1938

In the United States, Bloch enrolled at Columbia University, and received a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1938. He taught at Columbia from 1939 to 1946. From there he went to the University of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until 1982. After retirement at Harvard, he served as the Mack and Effie Campbell Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the College of Human Sciences at Florida State University.

1941

Bloch and Lore Teutsch first met in Munich; in 1941 they married in the U.S. They had two children, Peter C. Bloch and Susan E. Bloch. He had two grandchildren, Benjamin N. Bloch and Emilie Bloch Sondel. He was fond of skiing, tennis, and music. Konrad Bloch died in Lexington, Massachusetts of congestive heart failure, aged 88. Lore Bloch died in 2010 aged 98.

1964

Bloch shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 with Feodor Lynen, for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Their work showed that the body first makes squalene from acetate over many steps and then converts the squalene to cholesterol. He traced all the carbon atoms in cholesterol back to acetate. Some of his research was conducted using radioactive acetate in bread mold: this was possible because fungi also produce squalene. He confirmed his results using rats. He was one of several researchers who showed that acetyl Coenzyme A is turned into mevalonic acid. Both Bloch and Lynen then showed that mevalonic acid is converted into chemically active isoprene, the precursor to squalene. Bloch also discovered that bile and a female sex hormone were made from cholesterol, which led to the discovery that all steroids were made from cholesterol. His Nobel Lecture was "The Biological Synthesis of Cholesterol."

1985

In 1985, Bloch became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science.