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1912- . US chemist whose research concerned
cholesterol. Making use of the radioisotope
carbon-14 (the radioactive form of carbon),
Bloch was able to follow the complex steps by
which the body chemically transforms acetic
acid into cholesterol. For his ability in
this field Bloch shared the 1964 Nobel Prize
in Medicine with Feodor Lynen (1911-).