Anthony Michaelis

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Anthony Rowland Michaelis (born August 22, 1916 in Berlin ; † October 18, 2007 in Heidelberg ) was an English science journalist and editor .

Life

After studying aerodynamics and then chemistry , both in London since 1933, Michaelis was interned in Canada because of the war events and had worked in a leading position in the chemical industry since 1941.

After the war he was hired by the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (BIOS), after which he worked as a technical writer at Ciba and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), both in Switzerland, as a scientific film writer in Australia, as an editor of the science newspaper " Discovery ”and then as a science journalist for the Daily Telegraph and from 1973 as the editor and founder of the Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (ISR).

Act

Michaelis aimed at a broad interdisciplinary scientific exchange as well as a respect for science in post-war Germany in the English-speaking countries.

Honors and awards (selection)

Publications

as an author
as editor
  • Scientists in Search of Their Conscience . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 1973, ISBN 3-540-06026-X (together with Hugh Harvey).
  • Science in Germany. Decline and new rise . Wissenschaftliche VG, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8047-0690-8 (together with Roswitha Schmid).

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personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michaelis, Anthony Rowland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2007
Place of death Heidelberg