Erich Wünsch

Erich Wünsch (born March 17, 1923 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ; † February 14, 2013 in Tutzing ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Career

Wünsch began his scientific career in 1951 at the Research Center for Protein and Leather Research in Regensburg , with which he moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1957 . In 1964 he was Joachim Jentsch's doctoral supervisor in cooperation with Friedrich Weygand . From 1961 to 1968 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research and developed the synthesis of glucagon with his colleagues . From 1973 to 1991 he was a scientific member and director of the peptide chemistry working group at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried . He was an adjunct professor for organic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich . Since November 8, 1981 he was a full member of the natural science class of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts and its president from 1985 to 1990.

Wünsch published the series Synthesis of Peptides in Houben-Weyl .

Fonts

• Contribution to the synthesis of peptides. o. O., 1955
• The total synthesis of the pancreatic hormone glucagon. Munich 1968

Honors

• 1968: Bavarian State Prize
• 1976: Honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen
• 1984: Ritter von Gerstner Medal
• 1987: Great Sudeten German Culture Prize
• 1988: J. Rudinger Lecturer and J. Rudinger Medal
• 1991: D. Heyrovsky Gold Medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 1991: M. Bergmann medal in gold
• 1991: Golden plaque of honor from the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• 2008: Medal "Pro meritis" from the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts

literature

• Reinhard Fässler: Erich Wünsch: March 17, 1923 - February 14, 2013 , in: Annual Report of the Max Planck Society 2013, Beileger, page 26 (obituary on request).

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Wünsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site of the Sudeten German Academy about Wünsch

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Erich Wünsch on the website of the Sudeten German Academy .
3. ↑ RESEARCH / HORMONE: Chains made to measure Der Spiegel 5/1968 of January 29, 1968.
4. ↑ Antagonist of insulin: The synthesis of the glucagon Die Zeit , No. 5/1968 of February 2, 1968 , succeeded in Munich .
5. ^ Archive of the Max Planck Society, II. Dept., Rep. 41 - Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry ( Memento from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).