Hans Georg Zachau

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Hans Georg Zachau (born May 16, 1930 in Berlin ; † December 17, 2017 ) was a German biochemist .

After he had passed his Abitur at a humanistic grammar school in Berlin in 1948, he began a double degree in medicine and chemistry in Frankfurt am Main. After he had passed the physics or intermediate diploma , he only finished his chemistry studies (focus on biochemistry) and did his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Tübingen (today in Munich) with the Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt on sex pheromones of the silk moth . He also completed additional business management training and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and at Rockefeller University in New York.

In 1967 he became professor for physiological chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (name of the institute today: Adolf Butenandt Institute ). He retired in 1999 .

His research area was the tRNA and the mechanisms for the transmission of gene information into the organism. His group of researchers has mapped various genes in mice and humans, including the light chain kappa immunoglobulin gene locus IGK .

Hans Georg Zachau was the son of the economist Erich Zachau (1902–1978) and his wife Gertrud. He was married and had three sons.

Honors

In 1967 Zachau was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1968 he received the Richard Kuhn Medal and from 1976 belonged to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1981 he was accepted into the order Pour le mérite for sciences and arts and was its chancellor from 1992 to August 6, 2005. In 1983 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with a star . In 1989 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Otto Warburg Medal , and in 1991 the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . Since 1985 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 1994 a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Georg Zachau's obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , December 23, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Schäble KF, Zachau HG: The variable genes of the human immunoglobulin kappa locus . In: Biol Chem Hoppe Seyler . tape 374 , no. November 11 , 1993, pp. 1001-22 (English).
  3. ↑ Zachau HG: Immunoglobulin light chain genes of the K type in man and mouse . In: T. Honjo, W. Alt, T. Rabbitts (Eds.): The Immunoglobulin Genes . Academic Press, London 1989, ISBN 0-12-354865-9 , pp. 91-109 (English).
  4. ^ The International Who's Who, 1989-90. Europa Publications, 1989, ISBN 0-946653-50-X , p. 1706 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Richard Kuhn Prize of the GDCh ( Memento from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b c University of Munich: Curriculum Vitae of Hans Georg Zachau ( Memento from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Albach is the order's chancellor
  8. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Hans Georg Zachau. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 5, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Zachau, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2017