Lothar Jaenicke

Lothar Jaenicke (born September 14, 1923 in Berlin ; † December 29, 2015 ) was a German biochemist and professor at the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Cologne .

Life

Lothar Jaenicke was one of the sons of the chemist Johannes Jaenicke (1888–1984) and Erna Jaenicke. His father was a colleague of Fritz Haber , who later put together an extensive collection of material on Fritz Haber. After graduating from the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt in 1941, he studied botany and chemistry as a guest student in Marburg, before becoming a laboratory assistant at Schering AG in Berlin on the recommendation of Hans Meerwein , thus avoiding a draft for labor service (Organization Todt). 1947 graduated Jaenicke be Physicum in Marburg, in 1948 he was chemist and obtained his doctorate in the same year with Hans Meerwein at the University of Marburg to workAbout the polymerization of tetrahydrofuran with mixtures of metal and non-metal halides to the Dr. phil. In 1954 he completed his habilitation. From 1954 to 1956 he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio.

Jaenicke burial site

From 1957 to 1962 he was a dietician and adjunct professor at the Institute for Biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and in 1962 he was appointed associate professor for physiological chemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne.

From 1963 until his retirement in 1988 he was full professor and institute director of the Institute for Biochemistry of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Cologne. Visiting professorships have taken him to Beirut, Cairo, New Delhi, Bangalore and Austin, Texas.

His main areas of work were enzymology , biosynthetic group transfers and signaling agents and inducers in protists . He wrote a total of around 250 original works and monographs. In addition to his scientific work, he has published several books with biographical and scientific-historical profiles. An article about the Nazi entanglements of the Nobel Prize winner Richard Kuhn in the GDCh magazine Nachrichten aus der Chemie led to violent reactions from readers.

Lothar Jaenicke was buried in an urn on February 22nd, 2016 in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 27 no. 170).

He was the brother of the chemist Rainer Jaenicke and the uncle of the actor Hannes Jaenicke .

Honors

1963: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
1979: Otto Warburg Medal
1984: Richard Kuhn Medal
2000: Lorenz Oken Medal

Memberships and activities as editor

A selection of memberships: since 1978 honorary member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , from 1984 to 1986 member of the Science Council , from 1984 to 1990 member of the supervisory board of the Society for Biotechnological Research (GBF), Braunschweig, 1986 to 1987 Jaenicke was a "Fellow" at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. In 1978 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Jaenicke had been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1989 .

He was the editor or editor of the Biochemical Journal , the Natural Sciences , the journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, and the journal Chemistry in Our Time . He is one of the co-founders of the magazine "Biospektrum".

Publications

Cell Biology Profiles. 36 portraits from German history. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7776-1693-3 .
Profiles of biochemistry. 44 portraits from German history. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7776-1517-2 .
Differentiation and pattern formation in simple organisms (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Natural, engineering and economic sciences. Lectures. 383). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-08383-X .
as editor: Biochemistry of differentiation and morphogenesis (= Colloquium of the Society for Biological Chemistry. 33). Springer, Berlin et al. 1982, ISBN 3-540-12010-6 .
as editor: Biochemistry of sensory functions (= Colloquium of the Society for Biological Chemistry. 25). Springer, Berlin et al. 1974, ISBN 3-540-07038-9 .
Sexual attractants in the plant kingdom (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Natural, engineering and economic sciences. Lectures. 217). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1972, ISBN 3-531-08217-5 .

Translations into German

Bruce Alberts et al .: Molecular Biology of the Cell. Translated by Lothar Jaenicke (Head). VCH Verlags Gesellschaft, Weinheim et al. 1986, ISBN 3-527-26350-0 (4th edition. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-527-30492-4 ).

literature

Helmut Sies : Obituary for Lothar Jaenicke in the session of the class for natural sciences and medicine on March 16, 2016. In: Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences (2017), pp. 106-108 ( online )

Web links

Literature by and about Lothar Jaenicke in the catalog of the German National Library
Page about Jaenicke at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
Member Post by Lothar Jaenicke at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 11 January 2017th

Individual evidence

↑ Lothar Jaenicke (1923-2015) .
↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Lothar Jaenicke at academictree.org, accessed on February 13 2018th
^ Correspondence. Richard Kuhn, the Third Reich, the GDCh and the news from chemistry. [Message Chem. 2006, 54, 495, 510, 573] ( Memento from October 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Biospektrum.de: Editorial Board

personal data
SURNAME	Jaenicke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 2015

[1] Lothar Jaenicke (1923-2015) .

[2] raphical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Lothar Jaenicke at academictree.org, accessed on February 13 2018th

[3] Correspondence. Richard Kuhn, the Third Reich, the GDCh and the news from chemistry. [Message Chem. 2006, 54, 495, 510, 573] ( Memento from October 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Biospektrum.de: Editorial Board