Fritz Hermann Kayser

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Fritz Hermann Kayser (born February 17, 1933 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Is a German microbiologist.

Life

Kayser attended the Karls-Oberrealschule in Bad Reichenhall . After graduating from high school, he began studying medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1953 he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Lausanne and later to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1958 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. After two years as a medical assistant , he was licensed as a doctor in 1960 .

In Munich he first worked for two years with Adolf Butenandt at the Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research , then from 1962 at the Institute for Bacteriology and Hygiene at the Klinikum rechts der Isar . In 1964 he went to the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Zurich as a senior assistant , where he completed his habilitation in Medical Microbiology in 1966 .

After a year at the University of California at Davis ( Section of Infectious Diseases ), he became senior physician in charge of the diagnostic laboratories of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Zurich in 1970. Since 1975 associate professor , in 1987 he became professor of medical microbiology in Zurich . In 1988 he became executive director of the Department of Experimental Microbiology. In 2000 he retired and was appointed honorary professor at the university.

Member of the Paul Ehrlich Society since 1967 , Kayser headed its Fundamentals section from 1988 to 1992 . Member of the board since 1992, he was president of the company from 1999 to 2001. With Pramod M. Shah he edited the Chemotherapy Journal until the end of 2008 .

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Works

  • with Eric C. Böttger, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Otto Haller, Johannes Eckert, Peter Deplazes: Pocket Textbook Medical Microbiology , 12th edition, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 9783134448122

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141/919.
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The resistance of staphylococci to penicillinase-solid penicillins and cephalosporins
  3. ↑ President Paul Ehrlich Society (PDF; 53 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Kayser, Fritz Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.