Alfred Gierer

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Alfred Gierer (born April 15, 1929 in Berlin) is a German physicist , professor and director ( emeritus ) at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen , who specializes in biology (including research on the tobacco mosaic virus TMV), biophysics , history and Philosophy of science .

Life

As a child he lived in Shanghai , where his father worked. He studied physics in Göttingen . In 1953 he received his doctorate in Munich at the Max Planck Institute for Physics on a topic from theoretical chemistry .

In 1953, after the war , it was possible for German postdocs to do research in the USA for the first time . Gierer received a Fulbright Fellowship and worked at MIT on enzyme kinetics . With Hans Meinhardt , he researched pattern formation in biology and developed the model for the activator inhibitor with him. 1958 followed the habilitation in Tübingen. Later he devoted himself mainly to philosophical questions. B. Comparisons between technological progress and biological evolution .

In 1964 Gierer was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 2005 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina.

Works

  • The physics, the life and the soul. Piper, Munich 1985 ( reformatting )
  • The imagined nature. Munich 1991 ( reformatting )
  • The role of science in politics and the role of politics in science. Munich 1991
  • In the mirror of nature we recognize ourselves - science and human image. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998 ( reformatting )
  • Science and the image of man - Open to different interpretations of the world. In: How do new qualities arise in complex systems? 50 years of the Max Planck Society, 1948–1998. Documentation of the symposium on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Max Planck Society on December 18, 1998 in Berlin. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, pp. 105–115 ISBN 3-525-85938-4 ( online here )
  • Biology, the image of man and the scarce resource of common sense. Research reports of the interdisciplinary working group "Common Good and Common Sense" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences IV. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 19–36 ISBN 3-05-003679-6 ( online here )
  • Free will from a neuroscientific and theological history perspective - a cognitive comparison. Preprint Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 285 (2005) 1–17
  • Conscious Brain Research and the Brain-Mind Problem. In: Neurosciences and Human Image Mentis, Paderborn 2005 pp. 139–149 ISBN 3-89785-386-8 ( online here )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Meinhardt, Alfred Gierer: Activator-Inhibitor - A model for biological pattern formation. In: av.tib.eu. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Greer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, professor and director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin