Heinz Bielka

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Heinz Bielka (born March  19, 1929 in Gersdorf bei Görlitz ) is a German cell and molecular biologist . From 1964 to the end of 1971 he was director of the Institute for Cell Physiology of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , which later became the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1972 to 1981 he was head of department and then until 1991 deputy director of the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM), which arose from the merger of the Institute for Cell Physiology with a number of other academy institutes. He then worked at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , the successor to the ZIM, until 1995 .

Life

Heinz Bielka was born in Gersdorf bei Görlitz in 1929 and, after graduating from high school in 1948 after the end of the Second World War , initially worked as a new teacher in Ottendorf . He then studied biology at the universities in Dresden and Leipzig from 1949 to 1954 and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1956 on studies of the metabolism and growth of tumor cells . In 1961 he was at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on experimental leukemia of the mouse habilitation .

From 1962 he was deputy director of the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and from 1964, as successor to Erwin Negelein, director of the Academy Institute for Cell Physiology ; in 1968 he was appointed professor by the Academy. At the beginning of 1972, after the founding of the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM), which was the successor to the Institute for Cell Physiology and several other academy institutes, he became head of the Cell Physiology department at ZIM, where he worked from 1981 until the end of the 1991 acted as deputy director of the institute. From 1992 he worked at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , the successor to the Central Institute for Molecular Biology.

The research activities of Heinz Bielka, influenced by his teacher Arnold Graffi at the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, mainly related to molecular and cell biological aspects of cancer growth . He has been retired since 1995.

Awards

From 1976, Heinz Bielka was a corresponding and from 1978 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , in 1970 he was also admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Since 1993 he has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 1974 he received the Rudolf Virchow Prize , in 1979 the National Prize of the GDR and in 1993, together with other scientists, the Gerhard Domagk Prize for clinical and experimental cancer research. The Humboldt University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1996 .

Works (selection)

  • The Eukaryotic Ribosomes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982; Licensed edition by Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 1982
  • Molecular biology. Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1985; Licensed edition by Fischer, Stuttgart 1985
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell. Publishing house Gustav Fischer, Jena 1969, 1973, 1995
  • History of the medical-biological institute Berlin-Buch. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 1997, 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Bielka's member entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bielka, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German molecular and cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersdorf near Görlitz