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Edmond H. Fischer

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Edmond H. Fischer 1920-, American biologist, b. Shanghai, China. As researchers at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs discovered a biological regulatory mechanism, reversible protein phosphorylation, that affects nearly all human cells. For their work, Krebs and Fischer shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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