Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (14 January 1928 – 16 December 2019)[2] was a British-American biochemist.

[3][6] After receiving Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and working for two years in Yale University and Public Health Research Institute in USA, he then returned to the UK where his mentor, Sir Hans Krebs, had moved to Oxford University and offered him a post there.

This partnership produced a paper in Nature,[7] concerning their discovery of the glyoxylate cycle, and also a joint book entitled Energy Transformations in Living Matter in 1957.

Hans became a lecturer at Worcester College between 1958 and 1961, and was also the first person to receive The Biochemical Society's annual Colworth Medal on 1963.

[11] In 1973, he was awarded the Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.