Dietrich H. Bodenstein

Dietrich Hans Franz Alexander Bodenstein (born February 1, 1908 in Corwingen , East Prussia ; † January 5, 1984 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) was a German - American biologist ( entomology , physiology ).

Live and act

Bodenstein studied from 1926 at the University of Königsberg , among others with Otto Koehler , from 1928 at the University of Berlin . He worked as a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology , including for Otto Mangold .

With the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933, Bodenstein decided to leave Germany. After working at the German-Italian Institute for Marine Biology in Rovigno , Italy , he came to the United States in 1934, taking citizenship in 1940. Here he was from 1934 to 1941 research assistant at Stanford University and worked from 1941 to 1942 with a Guggenheim scholarship at Columbia University . In 1944, Bodenstein was a research assistant at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven . From 1945 to 1958 he worked as an insect physiologist at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood , Maryland , from where he - with the help of Otto Koehler - completed a doctoral examination at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 1953 . From 1958 to 1960 he worked as an embryologist at the National Heart Institute in Baltimore , Maryland.

1960 Bodenstein received a professorship in biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where he was also the head of the department until 1973. In 1978 he retired , but did research from 1978 to 1981 with a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Philipps University of Marburg , among others with Peter Karlson .

Bodenstein mainly dealt with the developmental physiology of insects . In particular, he was able to perform fundamental experiments on the regulation of moulting and metamorphosis and to carry out important studies on the function of ecdysone in insect development. His students include Michael Berridge and Joseph Altman .

In 1958 Bodenstein was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1961 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and 1963 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Fellow .

Bodenstein was married to Jean Coon Bodenstein for the second time. He had a daughter from his first marriage.

literature

• James Murray: Dietrich HFA Bodenstein 1908–1984 (PDF; 772 kB) In: Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences, 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Bodenstein. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Dietrich Bodenstein. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed January 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 5, 2020 .