Anthony Michaelis
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)
- 1993: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1995: Culture Prize of the Eduard Rhein Foundation for decades of work for the freedom of science.
- Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society
Publications
- as an author
- The scientific temper. An anthology of stories on matter of science . Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1229-1 . Online version in Eugene Garfield's library
- The restoration of Science in Germany . In: New Scientist , 1963.
- 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).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anthony Michaelis in the catalog of the German National Library
- New book presented. Michaelis: The Scientific Temper ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Prof. Dr. Gisbert Frhr. zu Putlitz (Heidelberg University), October 16, 2001
personal data | |
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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 |