Gerhard Meisenberg
Gerhard Meisenberg (born January 22, 1953 in Dortmund ) is a German biochemist .
Meisenberg obtained a master's degree in biology from the University of Bochum . In 1981 he wrote his doctoral thesis on the occurrence of behaviorally active peptides in mammals at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich . After completing his PhD, he worked for two years as a research fellow in the Biochemistry Department at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood , Illinois.
In 1984 he began as an assistant professor of biochemistry at the Ross University School of Medicine , where he initially rose to associate professor and vice chairman of the department of biochemistry. Meisenberg has been a full professor since 1992 and was chairman of the biochemistry department for around twenty years. Until 2018 he taught biochemistry and genetics as well as cell biology , neuroscience and behavioral research .
He is the senior author of the first four editions of the medical textbook Principles of Medical Biochemistry . In 2007 he published a popular science book on the biological basis of human behavior.
Together with Richard Lynn , he heads the Pioneer Fund , which the US civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center has long termed an institutionally racist ( hate group ). The British periodical Mankind Quarterly , of which he was editor-in-chief until the end of 2018, has been criticized as a "racist magazine" by the British Guardian and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Meisenberg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Gerhard Meisenberg at EasyBib
Individual evidence
- ↑ SPLCenter.org: Missing the Boat: NPR & the Pioneer Fund ( Memento of May 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ TheGuardian.com: Racism is creeping back into mainstream science - we have to stop it. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
- ↑ SPLCenter.org: Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meisenberg, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |