A Nobel Prize, of course. Such was the case for Hans Krebs, the biochemist who nabbed the award in 1953 for discovering the citric acid cycle, or “Krebs cycle”—the cellular pathway that converts ...

In 1953 he earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle, later known as the Krebs cycle, an explanation of one of the most fundamental processes of life: ...

In fast glycolysis it converts itself to lactic acid causing immediate fatigue. In slow glycolysis it gets converted to acetyl coenzyme A and is transported to Krebs cycle, which produces more ATP and ...