Barbara scorn

Barbara Hohn (born September 15, 1939 in Klagenfurt as Barbara Freiinger ) is an Austrian molecular biologist .

Life

From 1957 to 1962 she studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and then carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen; at the University of Tübingen she received her doctorate in 1967 . As a postdoc , she did research at the universities of Yale and Stanford and from 1971 at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel . In 1978 she became a group leader at the (private) Friedrich Miescher Institute there . At the same time, she was a private lecturer in molecular genetics from 1989 and adjunct professor at the University of Basel from 1996 . In 2004 she retired.

The Agrobacterium tumefaciens belongs to her research subjects .

In 2010 she was awarded the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize . Hohn is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (mathematical and natural science class) and the Royal Society . She has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1980 . In 1988 she was a founding member of the Academia Europaea . In 2014 she received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art .

She is married to the molecular biologist Thomas Hohn and has two sons.

with Thomas Hohn: Activity of empty, headlike particles for packaging of lambda DNA in vitro . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 71 , 1974, p. 2372 ff . ( online ).
with Kenneth Murray: Packaging recombinant DNA molecules into bacteriophage particles, in vitro . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 74 , 1977, pp. 3259 ff . ( online ).

↑ Files on the habilitation process , Basel State Archives, accessed on July 28, 2012.
^ Membership directory: Barbara Hohn. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 10, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mockery, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freiinger, Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klagenfurt