Manfred Schidlowski

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Manfred Schidlowski

Manfred Schidlowski (born November 13, 1933 in Stettin ; † October 3, 2012 in Altusried ) was a German geochemist . He was a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute) in Mainz . His research dealt with the biogeochemistry of the early Earth. A special edition of the Precambrian Research magazine was published in 2005 in honor of Schidlowski .

Life

Schidlowski was born in Szczecin. During the conquest of Szczecin by the Red Army , his parents moved with him to Greifswald. He studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1952 to 1955 and moved to the Free University of Berlin in 1956 , where he also received his doctorate. After completing his doctorate, he conducted research in South Africa and, from 1963, in Heidelberg. From 1965–1967 he worked at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and then completed his habilitation at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . From 1969 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. He retired in 1998 and lived in Altusried in the Allgäu from 2005 . In 1964 he married Ingrid Piegler (born April 16, 1935 in Schleiz / Thür.), Great-great-granddaughter of Heinrich Gottfried Piegler . The marriage resulted in 3 daughters. His last work appeared posthumously, a drama about Lenin's end.

Schidlowski principle

Schidlowski was the first to find out that biochemical processes (e.g. photosynthesis ) change the ratio of the isotopes of carbon . The Schidlowski principle now states that if two sedimentary rocks have the same isotope ratio of carbon, they are based on similar biochemical processes. This principle was later applied to the isotopes of sulfur by Schidlowski and others .

Works

  • M. Schidlowski: A 3,800-million-year isotopic record of life from carbon in sedimentary rocks . In: Nature . tape 333 , 1988, pp. 313-318 , doi : 10.1038 / 333313a0 .
  • B. Nagy, R. Weber, JC Guerrero, M. Schidlowski: Developments and Interactions of the Precambrian Atmosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere . 1st edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1983, ISBN 978-0-444-42240-8 .
  • M. Schidlowski, S. Golubic, M. Kimberley, D. McKirdy, PA Trudinger: Early Organic Evolution: Implications for Mineral and Energy Resources . Springer, 1992, ISBN 978-3-642-76886-6 .
  • M. Schidlowski: '' Lenin in Gorki: Drama in two acts. '' Berlin: Dt. Literaturges., 2013, ISBN 978-3-86215-307-7 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Reitner, K. Weber, U. Karg: The system of the earth - what moves the world? Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-938616-07-5 , p. 7 ( [1] ).
  2. ^ Manfred Schidlowski: Early Evolution of Life on Earth: Geological and Biogeochemical Evidence In: ZGW, Berlin 37, 4–5, 237–260, 2009 Early evolution of life on earth: Geological and biogeochemical findings
  3. ^ Y. Shen, H. Strauss: Stable isotopes, life, and early earth history: A special issue of Precambrian Research in honor of Manfred Schidlowski . In: Precambrian Research . tape 137 , no. 3–4 , 2005, pp. 115–117 , doi : 10.1016 / j.precamres.2005.03.001 .
  4. ↑ Theo Piegler: Vogtländische fates. Looking for traces in the history of the Piegler. videel, Niebüll 2005, ISBN 3-89906-996-X , p. 116 .
  5. ↑ M. Schidlowski: Antiquity and Evolutionary Status of Bacterial Sulfate Reduction: Sulfur Isotope Evidence . In: Limits of Life . tape 4 , 1980, p. 159–171 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-009-9085-2_14 .
  6. ↑ David Rickard : Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool's Gold . Oxford University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-020367-2 , pp. 171-172 .
personal data
SURNAME Schidlowski, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geochemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2012
Place of death Altusried