Friedrich Cramer (chemist)
Friedrich Cramer (born September 20, 1923 in Breslau ; † June 24, 2003 ; often called Fritz Cramer by colleagues ) was a German chemist and genetic researcher .
Study and job
After a war wound in Russia in October 1942, Friedrich Cramer studied chemistry , first at the University of Breslau , then from 1944 to 1949 at the University of Heidelberg . There he was in 1949 when Karl Freudenberg on the subject cyclodextrins Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1953 , Cramer completed his habilitation with a paper on the same subject. In the same year he worked at Cambridge University with James Watson and Francis Crick , the discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA . He reported on his work in England in 1954 at the University of Heidelberg in a first German lecture on the chemistry of inheritance (biology) .
From 1954 to 1959 Friedrich Cramer worked in Heidelberg in the still young field of genetic research . Then he followed a call to a chair for organic chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt . From 1962 to 1991, Cramer was director of research at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen .
Honors
- 1977: Member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society
- 1981: Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1981: Full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- 1990: Karl Vossler Prize for scientific representations of literary rank. (Literature Prize Free State of Bavaria)
- Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Fonts
Books
- Paper chromatography . Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1953.
- Inclusion compounds. Springer, Berlin 1954.
- Progress through renunciation. Is the human biological being up to its future? Nymphenburger, Munich 1975.
- Chaos and order. The complex structure of the living. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988.
- Amazon. Novella. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- with Wolfgang Kaempfer : The nature of beauty. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- The time tree. Foundation of a general theory of time. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
- Game of synapses. Poems and prose. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- Tightrope walks. The chaos of the arts and the order of time. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
- Symphony of the living. Attempt a general theory of resonance. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
- Live like Job. Memories. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999.
Articles (selection)
- Is there a post-modern science? In: Peter Koslowski , Richard Schenk (Ed.): Ambivalence - Ambiguity - Postmodernity. Limited unambiguous thinking. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2004.
- Is God a Mathematician? Friedrich Cramer in conversation with Kurt Darsow. In: Insel-Almanach from 1994. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1993.
literature
- Fritz Eckstein : Friedrich Cramer (1923-2003). Nucleic acid chemist and philosopher . In: Angewandte Chemie . Vol. 115, No. 33, August 25, 2003, p. 3980, doi: 10.1002 / anie.200390586 ( online ).
- Fritz Eckstein: Friedrich Cramer 2.9.1923–24.6.2003. In: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2004. Self-published by the MPG, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-927579-18-1 , p. 109 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Cramer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Friedrich Cramer at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
- ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . No. 2003 , 2004, pp. 282 .
- ↑ Winner of the Karl Vossler Prize ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cramer, Friedrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cramer, Fritz (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and genetic researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2003 |