Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Krebs cycle
1941, named for Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), German-born British biochemist.
Usage examples of "krebs cycle".
The Krebs cycle was following a slow sine curve that dipped perilously into the death cycle now.
Krebs, whose name is known to every biochemistry student for his discovery of two central metabolic routes, that by which glucose is oxidized to carbon dioxide in the cell (known as the Krebs cycle) and that by which urea is produced (for which he was awarded his Nobel), was a man who lived for his own experiments and, within the hierarchical framework that his own training had bequeathed him, gave his juniors enough rope to hang themselves.