December 21, 2009

2009Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)^[†]

Edwin Gerhard Krebs was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.

2009Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (born 1934)^[†]

Christos Dimitriou Lambrakis was the owner of Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), one of the largest newspaper groups in Greece, and arguably the most influential.