克雷布斯1918年生于衣阿华州,就读于伊利诺斯大学,1940年在圣路易斯华盛顿大学获医学博士。1940年,在华盛顿大学从事医学研究。生物化学家埃德温·克雷布斯和埃德蒙·费希尔,早在50年代就发现了细胞中的逆转蛋白磷酸化控制生物机体的新陈代谢的机理。由于这一发现对后来的研究起了关键性作用,共同获得1992年诺贝尔医学奖。 Krebs was born in 1918 in Iowa, studied at the University of Illinois, and received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1940. In 1940, engaged in medical research at the University of Washington. Biochemists Edwin Krebs and Edmund Fisher, as early as the 1950s, discovered the mechanism by which protein in the cell reverses phosphorylation and controls the metabolism of living organisms. Since this discovery has played a key role in later research, they jointly won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Medicine.