August Böck
August Böck (born April 23, 1937 in Kaltenberg , Landsberg am Lech district ) is a German biochemist and microbiologist.
Career
Böck studied biology and chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he did his doctorate with Werner Rau and qualified as a professor (after a research stay in the USA). In 1971 he became professor of microbiology at the University of Regensburg and from 1978 professor at the Institute for Genetics (from 1991 at the Institute for Microbiology) of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he retired in 2002.
He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Leopoldina (since 1988).
Böck studied selenium and nickel-containing proteins in E. coli and the mechanisms of their biosynthesis. In doing so, he also found new knowledge about the genetic code of bacteria. He discovered that the UGA codon is read differently depending on the preceding DNA sequence - it is usually a stop signal during the translation of the mRNA, but can also code for the incorporation of the rare amino acid selenocysteine .
Honors
- 1986: Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- 1994: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1994: Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Society for Experimental Biology
- 1995: Otto Warburg Medal
- 1999: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2005: Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich
- 2007: Gregor Mendel Medal of the Leopoldina
- 2014: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Web links
- Literature by and about August Böck in the catalog of the German National Library
- To receive the Mendel Medal
- August Böck on the website of the University of Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- ^ German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 1988 (snippet view on GoogleBooks ), accessed August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Member entry by August Böck (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Member entry by August Böck (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böck, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist and microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaltenberg , Landsberg am Lech district |