Karl Bernhard (chemist)
Karl Bernhard (born February 19, 1904 in Winterthur ; † 1993 ) was a Swiss biochemist and director of the Physiological-Chemical Institute at the University of Basel .
Bernhard studied in Geneva and Zurich and received his doctorate in Geneva in 1932. He then worked as an assistant at the Physiological-Chemical Institute at the University of Zurich, where he completed his habilitation in 1938 and was then senior assistant and from 1944 titular professor. In 1949 he became a full professor in Basel. He was also the director of the Swiss Vitamin Institute. In 1958 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
His main area of work was fat metabolism, but he also worked on carotenoids .
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 42
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Karl Bernhard at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Bernhard, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |