Boris Rajewsky

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Boris Rajewsky (born July 19, 1893 in Chigirin , Kyiv Gouvernement , Russian Empire , today Ukraine ; † November 22, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a well-known German biophysicist and radiation researcher of Ukrainian origin.

Life

Boris Rajewsky, son of a Russian aristocratic family , studied physics at the Imperial St. Vladimir University in Kiev from 1912 to 1917 , where he received his doctorate in 1918 with the thesis "The dispersion of electrical waves in liquid dielectrics". After working as an assistant at the Physics Institute at the University of Kiev and briefly working as a physics teacher in Hungary, he moved to Germany in 1922. He received German citizenship in 1927 . As assistant to Friedrich Dessauer at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1929 he was awarded the title “Dr. phil. nat. ”and in the same year he was given the license to teach as a private lecturer .

In 1934, with the consent of Dessauer, he took over the management of Dessauer's "Institute for Physical Basics of Medicine". Dessauer was removed from office and arrested by the National Socialists because of his socio-political engagement; therefore Dessauer was forced to emigrate. Shortly thereafter, Rajewsky was appointed full professor. In 1937, Rajewsky's institute was rededicated as a "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biophysics", which has now been spun off from the University of Frankfurt and incorporated into the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . Rajewsky joined the SA in 1933, the NSDAP in 1937 , and the Nazi Lecturer Association in 1939 . He then worked with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research on radiation genetic experiments. In 1943 he became Vice Rector of the University of Frankfurt.

After the end of the Second World War he was initially interned, but a short time later he returned to work as acting head of the University X-ray Institute. From 1946 he was chairman of the scientific council of the Max Planck Society and chairman of the medical-biological section. From 1949 to 1951 he was rector, then until 1954 prorector of the University of Frankfurt.

In 1955 he became an advisor to the German Atomic Energy Commission , and in 1956 chairman of the special committee on radioactivity . In 1969 he held a symposium in which experiments on the effects of cosmic rays on living beings were considered. In 1961 he presented himself in the yearbook of the Max Planck Society as an “opponent and victim of National Socialism ”. In 1966 he retired from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics and died in 1974 in Frankfurt of colon cancer. His grave is in the Frankfurt Südfriedhof , Gewann E 307.

Boris Rajewsky had two sons, Manfred and Klaus, and the daughter Xenia. The biotechnologist Manfred Fedor Rajewsky was a professor at the University of Essen . The immunologist Klaus Rajewsky taught at the University of Cologne and Harvard University before moving to the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin in 2011 , where his son, the bioinformatician Nikolaus Rajewsky , has been working as the successor to Jens Reich since 2006 . The daughter Xenia is the author and translator of several books.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Biographie, Volume 2, p. 165
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 477–478.
  3. ^ Max Planck Institute for Biophysics - Physics School. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rajewsky, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biophysicist and radiation researcher of Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschyhyryn , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1974
Place of death Frankfurt am Main