Albrecht Kleinschmidt
Albrecht Karl Kleinschmidt (born April 19, 1916 in Friedrichshafen ; † August 30, 2000 ) was a German physician and microbiologist .
Albrecht Kleinschmidt was the son of a geophysicist who ran the meteorological station in Friedrichshafen. After graduating from high school in Stuttgart and completing his military and labor service, Kleinschmidt began studying medicine in Hamburg in 1937 , which he continued in Jena in 1939 and completed in Munich in 1942. He was seriously injured in World War II, in which he participated as a military doctor.
As an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, he familiarized himself with the technology of electron microscopy, which is still in its infancy . During his time as an employee at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Marburg (1952 to 1956) and later at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Frankfurt , the first virological studies were carried out. In 1957 he completed his habilitation, and in 1963 he was appointed associate professor. He worked as a research associate in Berkeley until 1965, then switched to a professorship in the Department of Biochemistry at New York University .
In 1973 he accepted a chair for microbiology at the University of Ulm . There he set up international workshops for "Biomolecular Electron Microscopy" and in 1988 a "Foundation for the Promotion of Molecular Biological Research at Ulm University".
About half of Kleinschmidt's 110 scientific publications deal with virological and / or molecular biological subjects. Together with his then colleague Dimitrij Lang , he achieved international fame with the first electron microscopic image of a natural DNA macromolecule (the DNA of bacteriophage T2) published in 1962 , which has found its way into numerous genetic textbooks.
In 1976 Kleinschmidt received the August Forster Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences in Mainz, and in 1978 the Robert Koch Prize from the Robert Koch Foundation in Bonn. In 1991 he became an honorary citizen of Ulm University.
Web links
- Obituary in uni ulm intern No. 239, Sept. 2000
- Kleinschmidts published in 1962. Image of the DNA of phage T2
- Literature by and about Albrecht Kleinschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinschmidt, Albrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleinschmidt, Albrecht Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrichshafen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 2000 |