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| | The Secrets of Cholesterol | TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Feodor Lynen, 53, head of biochemistry at the University of Munich and director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Zellchemie, is the son of a chemistry professor and married to the daughter of another, Heinrich Wieland, who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1927. |
 | | For years, until after World War II, Lynen's cholesterol work paralleled Bloch's without either man's knowing what the other was doing. |
 | | Sweden's Royal Caroline Institute, the medical school that is responsible for selecting Nobel winners in physiology and medicine, was understandably careful not to go out on a limb because of the raging controversies over cholesterol and cooking fats. |
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