Konrad Emil Bloch was born in 1912 and this year marks his birth centenary. A life that started in what is modern day Poland eventually brought him to the U.S. through his student days in pre-War Germany. His research career which flourished at Harvard  was capped by his discovery of the  pathways by which cholesterol and fatty acids  are metabolized. This seminal  work earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964. This paper will outline the life and times of Konrad Bloch and the many contributions he made in the chemistry of lipids and in many related fields. The fascinating discoveries he made with the newly developed methods using radio-labeled isotopes in the elucidation of organic transformations will be drawn out in the presentation

Konrad Bloch and the story of cholesterol

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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