What nationality was Konrad Emil Bloch?
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Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He was educated in Germany and Switzerland, and then moved to the United States in 1934 to escape Nazi persecution. He worked at Harvard University and then the University of Chicago, where he made important contributions to the understanding of the metabolism of fatty acids and cholesterol.
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