Marc Kirschner
Marc Wallace Kirschner (* 1945 ) is an American biologist .
Life
Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 . In 1972 he became an assistant professor at Princeton University . In 1993 he moved to Harvard Medical School .
The theory of facilitated variation (ger .: Theory of Facilitated Variation ) is an explanatory model that is designed to complement the theory of evolution understands and with the nature of the variation in the evolution is concerned. This theory was published in 2005 by Marc Kirschner, founder and chairman of the Systems Biology department at Harvard Medical School , and John Gerhart , professor at the University of California, Berkeley , in their book " The Plausibility of Life " (German title: Die Solution to Darwin's dilemma ).
In 1988 Kirschner gave the Keith R. Porter Lecture , and in 1989 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1991 he received the Richard Lounsbery Award and was President of the American Society for Cell Biology . He has been an external member of the Royal Society since 1999 and of the Academia Europaea since 2000 . In 2001 he received a Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 2003 the Dickson Prize in Science and the EB Wilson Medal . For 2015 he was awarded the Harvey Prize from the Technion Institute in Haifa. In 2016 he was elected as an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization .
Fonts
- with John Gerhart: Cells, Embryos, and Evolution: Toward a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability. Blackwell's, 1997, ISBN 0-86542-574-4 .
- with John Gerhart: The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma. Yale University Press , 2005, ISBN 0-300-10865-6 . (German: The solution to Darwin's dilemma: How evolution creates complex life. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62237-3 .)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory: Marc Kirschner. Royal Society, accessed January 18, 2018 .
- ^ Membership directory: Marc Kirschner. Academia Europaea, accessed January 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Harvey Prize winners for 2015. (No longer available online.) Technion, archived from the original on May 25, 2016 ; Retrieved May 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirschner, Marc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirschner, Marc W .; Kirschner, Marc Wallace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American evolutionary biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |