Hans Grüneberg (geneticist)

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Hans Grüneberg (born May 26, 1907 in Elberfeld , † October 23, 1982 in London ) was a German-British geneticist.

Life and activity

Green Mountain was born in Elberfeld, laid in 1926 at the local high school a high school, and then studied at the University of Bonn Medicine and Biology in Berlin. Hans Nachtsheim was one of his teachers . From 1930 to 1933, Grüneberg was an assistant at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg .

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power , Grüneberg lost  his position at the University of Freiburg in accordance with the law enacted by the Nazi government to restore the civil service - which, with very few exceptions, required the dismissal of people who were considered Jews according to the National Socialist definition. He emigrated to London at the invitation of JBS Haldane and Henry Hallett Dale . There he received a position at University College, where he worked with Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Michael James Denham White . He holds a PhD from the University of London.

In Germany, Grünberg was meanwhile classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police forces. In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of Great Britain, were to be located and arrested with special priority by SS special units that were to follow the occupation forces.

He turned down several appointments to chairs at German universities that Grüneberg received after the Second World War - such as an appointment to the Free University of Berlin in 1954. He stayed in London.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 . From 1956 to 1974 he was Professor of Genetics at University College London . Most of his work has focused on mouse genetics. He specialized in studying the pleiotropic effects of mutations in the mouse skeleton.

The Grüneberg ganglion is named after him.

Publications

  • 1947. Animal genetics and medicine . Hamish Hamilton, London.
  • 1952. The genetics of the mouse . Nijhoff, The Hague.
  • 1963. The pathology of development: a study of inherited skeletal disorders in animals . Wiley, London.

literature

  • Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol. 30, 1984, pp. 226-247.
  • Obituary in: British Medical Journal , Vol. 286, 1983, p. 137

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Grüneberg on the special wanted list GB (reproduction of the entry on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Gruneberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1982
Place of death London