Manfred Reitz

Manfred Reitz (* 1944 in Mainz ) is a German biologist and publicist .

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Reitz studied biology with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology as well as journalism. His doctorate was on a topic from immunology. He has worked at several research institutes and has dealt with topics from cancer research and genotoxicity .

In addition to his scientific activities, Reitz has also been active as a science journalist and later as a non-fiction author since the 1970s. He writes for various newspapers and magazines such as “Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit , Die Welt and for a press agency in Zurich. For the ZDF science magazine "Querschnitte" he advised on scripts. He is responsible for his own monthly science column in the magazine “Die Pharmazeutische Industrie”.

In 1978 he received a prize from the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology for an exemplary, generally understandable presentation of a scientific topic. Reitz is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and other scientific associations.

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Manfred Reitz published around 100 scientific publications of his own research, in addition to over 600 journalistic works from the fields of biosciences and medicine as well as over 100 journalistic works from the fields of art and cultural history.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Reitz in the catalog of the German National Library