Kurt Noack (botanist)
Kurt Noack (born January 22, 1888 in Stuttgart , † November 10, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German botanist and university professor at the Free University of Berlin .
Life
Noack passed his Abitur in 1906 at the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and then studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Tübingen with Hermann Vöchting from 1906 to 1907 and from 1907 to 1909 in Munich with Karl Ritter von Goebel . Since 1907 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen .
In 1909 he took the preliminary medical examination in Munich and began studying chemistry at Imperial College London in 1909 with William Augustus Tilden . From 1909 to 1910 he studied natural sciences at the University of Berlin , especially botany with Simon Schwendener , Peter Claussen and Paul Magnus and biochemistry with Emil Fischer and Carl Neuberg .
From 1910 to 1912 he studied botany in Leipzig with Wilhelm Pfeffer , Hugo Miehe and Johannes Buder . In 1912 Noack was awarded a Dr phil. PhD ( contributions to the biology of thermophilic organisms ).
From 1912 to 1913 he was assistant to Hermann Vöchting at the Botanical Institute of the University of Tübingen and then moved to the University of Strasbourg , where he was assistant to Ludwig Jost from 1913 to 1918 . During the First World War he served as a bacteriologist and field medical assistant in Strasbourg . There he completed his habilitation in 1918 with studies on the “ anthocyanin metabolism based on the chemical properties of the anthocyanin group ”.
In 1918 Noack was initially a private lecturer in botany at the University of Strasbourg and then moved to the University of Freiburg where he worked as a private lecturer and assistant for Friedrich Oltmanns .
From 1921 to 1922 he was curator and associate professor for botany and pharmacognosy at the University of Bonn with Hans Fitting , from 1922 to 1930 he was full professor for botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Erlangen .
Further stations in his career were the Universities of Halle (1930 to 1931) and the University of Berlin. Noack was full professor of botany and plant physiology there from 1931 to 1956, and dean of the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences from 1945 to 1953.
Kurt Noack belonged to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina from 1932 and was a full member from 1946 and from 1949 to 1957 class secretary of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1960 he was emeritus at the Free University of Berlin .
His main areas of work were metabolic physiology, especially work on photosynthesis and mineral metabolism, as well as the chemophysiology of plants.
swell
- W. Müller-Stoll (1964) in Jb Dt Akad. Wiss. Berlin
- A. Pirson (1965) in Reports d. German Bot Ges. 78
- C. Schnarrenberger (1990) in: Schnarrenberger, C. Scholz, H. (Ed.): Geschichte d. Botany in Berlin.
- E. Höxtermann (1991): in: Contributions z. Business d. HU Berlin 27
- E. Höxtermann (1998) in: Nova Acta Leopoldina, NF, Suppl. 15
- E. Höxtermann (1998) in: Jahn, I. (Ed.): History of Biology. 3. Edition
literature
- Ekkehard Höxtermann: Noack, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Ekkehard Höxtermann: Noack, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 299 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Noack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Kurt Noack in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 594.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noack, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1963 |
| Place of death | Berlin |