Fritz Kaudewitz

Fritz Kaudewitz (born March 11, 1921 in Breslau ; † 2001 ) was a German professor of genetics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Kaudewitz studied biology from 1939, interrupted by the Second World War. In 1948 he passed his state examination and in 1949 he received his doctorate. From 1954 to 1958 he was visiting scholar in the genetics department of the Carnegie Institution in Cold Spring Harbor. In 1960 he was an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Tübingen, where he completed his habilitation. He became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and was director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology and Hereditary Pathology in Berlin from 1960 to 1965 (from 1964 Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics ). From 1963 he was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he became head of the genetics department in 1966 and retired in 1986.

He dealt with the biogenesis of mitochondria , which he studied in wheat cells, and genetics of phages and bacteria.

In 1960 he received the Emil von Behring Prize . He was one of the founding members of the German Society for Genetics.

Fonts

• Genetics , Stuttgart, Ulmer, UTB Taschenbücher, 1983, 2nd edition 1992
• Molecular and Microbe Genetics , Springer 1973
• Basics of Inheritance , Munich, Dalp-Taschenbücher 1957

source

• Klaus Wolf: From Daphnia to yeast - two decades of mitochondrial research in Munich , Current Genetics, Volume 31, 1997, No. 5

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Kaudewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Fritz Kaudewitz  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Founding members of the German Society for Genetics  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.