Hans Tuppy

Hans Tuppy, 2005

Hans Tuppy (born July 22, 1924 in Vienna ) is an Austrian biochemist . In the federal government of Vranitzky II he was Federal Minister for Science and Research for the ÖVP .

career

Hans Tuppy was already involved in the field of science policy during his chemistry studies and is a co-founder of the Catholic University Community and the “Free Austrian Student Union”.

The most important stages of his scientific and scientific policy career:

• 1948 Promotion to Dr. phil.
• 1956 habilitation
• 1958 ao. Professor of Biochemistry
• since 1963 full professor at the Institute for Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna
• 1970–1972 Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna
• 1974–1982 President of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF)
• 1983–1985 Rector of the University of Vienna and Chairman of the Austrian Rectors' Conference
• 1985–1987 President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1987–1989 Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research
• 2003–2008 Chairman of the University Council of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Prizes and awards

Hans Tuppy was awarded various honorary doctorates in his many years of activity, the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art in 1975 , the Wilhelm Exner Medal in 1978 and the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Foundation in 2002. He was also called to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences . In 2011 he received the Golden Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria . In 2014 Tuppy received the Grand Prize of the Cardinal Innitzer Prize and the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with the star for services to the Republic of Austria .

As a young researcher , Hans Tuppy worked in Cambridge with Frederick Sanger on the sequencing of insulin . Frederick Sanger received the Nobel Prize in 1958 for this work , and since then Tuppy has been considered an "almost Nobel Prize winner".

After Cambridge Tuppy went to the Karlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and did not return to Vienna until 1951, where he became an assistant at the Second Chemical Institute at the University of Vienna. Tuppy never specialized in just one subject, but always tried to stay as broad as possible in his interests. Examples are work on nucleic acids , carbohydrates or viruses . With Helmut Schenkel-Brunner he worked on the enzymatic conversion of blood group substances of the AB0 system . With Peter Meindl he succeeded in discovering a group of neuraminic acid derivatives with antiviral activity.

Not only scientifically very successful, Tuppy was also involved in science policy. He worked on the formulation of the Research Promotion Act , introduced the peer review process during his presidency of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research and introduced some innovations during his political function as Federal Minister for Science and Research.

Tuppy has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1965 . In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Web links

Commons : Hans Tuppy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Tuppy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Exhibition about the life of Hans Tuppy
• Gehrer congratulates Tuppy on her 80th birthday ( Memento from June 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry on Hans Tuppy in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry about Hans Tuppy in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
• Recordings with Hans Tuppy in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (interviews, radio reports)
• Hans Tuppy on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Hans Tuppy in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 60 years of the Austrian Students' Union. ( Memento from July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) ORF / APA, March 10, 2006.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Synthesis of Cuskhygrin. Attempts to synthesize dictamnin , Vienna, Univ., 1948 - Permalink Austrian Library Association
3. ^ Contributions to the determination of the constitution of biologically active polypeptides and proteins , Vienna, Habil.-Schrift, 1956 - Permalink Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund
4. ↑ Hans Tuppy. (No longer available online.) In: kurienwissenschaftundkunst.at. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 19, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Reference files of the OeAW (PDF; 27 kB)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Tuppy. ( Memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ÖFG, 2002, accessed on February 17, 2012.
7. ^ Ulrich Nersinger: History and goals of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. In: zenit.org. October 12, 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2017 . 
8. ↑ University and Research Center Tulln opened . Article dated September 29, 2011, accessed August 16, 2017.
9. ↑ derStandard.at - Republic honors Hans Tuppy with decorations for his 90th birthday . Article dated September 23, 2014, accessed June 2, 2015.
10. ↑ Hans Tuppy: Amino acid sequences in proteins . In: Natural Sciences . tape 46 , no. 2 , 1959, p. 35-43 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00599080 .
11. ↑ R. Fialka: The financial development of the fund for the promotion of scientific research since it was founded in 1967. Vienna, 2007 (diploma thesis, PDF; 906 kB).
12. ^ Membership directory: Hans Tuppy. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 3, 2017 .