Ingo Potrykus

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Ingo Potrykus (born December 5, 1933 in Hirschberg ) is a German biologist . He is professor emeritus at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zurich . Potrykus developed the Golden Rice together with Peter Beyer .

Life

Potrykus studied zoology , botany , genetics , biochemistry , philosophy and physical education at the University of Cologne and the University of Erlangen . In 1968 he received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research . He received his habilitation in 1982 at the University of Basel .

From 1970 to 1974 Potrykus was Assistant Professor at the University of Hohenheim . He was then group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology (1974–1976) and at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (1976–1986). From 1986 Potrykus was a professor at the ETH until he retired in 1999. Since 1989 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .

He is married with three children and lives in Magden .

job

Potrykus' work was aimed at food security in developing countries . The focus was on applications of green genetic engineering in rice ( golden rice ), wheat , millet and cassava .

Potrykus has published about 340 scientific publications and received 30 international patents .

Awards

In 2006, Potrykus was voted the most influential scientist of the decade 1995–2005 in the field of agro-industrial and environmental biotechnology in the journal Nature .

Works (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Ingo Potrykus. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 11, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
  2. ↑ «Nature is anything but good». In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Potrykus, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg