Hans Kössel

Hans Kössel (born December 20, 1934 in Landsberg am Lech ; † December 24, 1995 ) was a German molecular biologist and university professor.

Kössel studied chemistry at the University of Munich from 1954 to 1959 and received his doctorate with a doctoral thesis that he worked on from 1959 to 1962 at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry under the direction of Adolf Butenandt in Munich. Then Kössel was assistant to Wolfram Zillig at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried until 1964 . From 1964 to 1967 he conducted research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with Har Gobind Khorana , where his main interests were polynucleotide synthesis and the genetic code .

In 1968 he received a position at the Institute for Biology III at the University of Freiburg, where he qualified as a professor in 1969 in molecular biology . In 1972 he became a professor at the same institute.

During his academic career, Kössel had shorter research stays at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the MRC Laboratory Cambridge . His main research areas were molecular genetics , chemistry and biochemistry of nucleic acids , in particular the synthesis and sequence analysis of nucleic acids and the sequence analysis of chloroplast DNA .

Alongside Arno Bogenrieder (botany) and Günther Osche and Klaus Günter Collatz (both zoology), Kössel was one of the specialist advisors for the first editions of the Herder Lexicon of Biology and specialist adviser for the Herder Lexicon of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology .

Memberships

• since 1981: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

source

• Maliga, Pal: Hans Kössel (1934-1995) . Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 1996: 73-75. Springer Netherlands.