Eberhard Neumann

Eberhard Neumann (born June 17, 1939 in Breslau ) is a German biochemist and biophysicist.

Life

Neumann studied chemistry in Münster and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1967 from the University of Münster . He then worked as an assistant to Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and conducted research with Aharon Katzir (Katchalsky) at the Weizmann Institute . He completed his habilitation in 1973 at the University of Konstanz and became an adjunct professor there in 1982, before becoming junior working group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried in Robert Huber's department in 1975 . From 1974 to 1978 he was visiting professor and adjunct professor at Columbia University and from 1983 to 2005 professor for physical and biophysical chemistry at Bielefeld University .

Neumann deals with the basics of biological electricity and the application of electrical pulses in biotechnology, including tumor therapy and gene therapy. He researched the influence of electric fields on the transport processes in membranes with application to the targeted smuggling of drugs into the cell. He also deals with membrane proteins and electrical gene transfer.

In 1980 he received the Chemistry Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bucharest (2003), the University of Ljubljana (2006, Faculty of Electrical Engineering) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Neumann was President of the German Society for Biophysics and the Society for Bioelectrochemistry and is the editor of Bioelectrochemistry .

In 1998 he became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Web links

• Website at Bielefeld University
• Biography at the Engelhorn Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
2. ^ Honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana for Neumann , University of Bielefeld 2006