Nobel Prize Recipient. Feodor Lynen, German biochemist, received international recognition after receiving the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing the prize jointly with Konrad Bloch. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the men received the award "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism." This was done while conducting research separately. Lynen received 22 nominations for the Nobel candidacy. At the time of the award, he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, Germany. At the award presentation, he gave his Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1964 , "The Pathway from Activated Acetic Acid to the Terpenes and Fatty Acids.” Born the seventh of eight children of a professor of engineering at the Munich Technical University, he started his studies at the chemistry department of Munich University in 1930, graduating in March of 1937 with his thesis "On the Toxic Substances in Amanita." During World War II, he remained in Germany at Munich University, where in 1942 he became a chemistry lecturer, in 1947 an assistant professor and in 1953 a professor of biochemistry. After the war, he was one of only four German biochemists who were invited to the First International Congress of Biochemistry, which was held in July of 1949 at Cambridge University in England. He was accepted in the international scientific community. From 1954 he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, a position which was created for him to provide the opportunity of research. In 1972, that institute was merged into the newly founded Max Planch Institute of Biochemistry. Besides the Nobel Prize, he was awarded numerous German awards and medals and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1972. He was a member of a host of learned societies around the world. In 1972, he was named President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, a German society focused on chemistry. He married and had two sons and three daughters. He died of surgical complications six weeks following an operation for an aneurism and was buried in the tiny village of Lock Leutstetten, Germany. The Feodor Lynen Early Career Fellowships is offered as a post-doctorate scholarship that may be used for research in educational facilities outside of Germany.