Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle
Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle (born August 20, 1935 in Kiel ) is a German chemist . From 1974 to 2000 she was associate professor for physical chemistry at the Technical University of Munich .
Life
Michel-Beyerle, daughter of the engineer Konrad Beyerle , studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen from 1955 , which she continued from 1957 to 1959 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Between 1960 and 1962 she was a graduate student at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University of Aachen . There she received her doctorate in 1964 on the subject of electrochemistry of indium . From 1966 to 1974 Michel-Beyerle worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. In 1974 she completed her habilitation at the Technical University of Munich. In the same year she was appointed to the chair for physical chemistry. In 2008 she was visiting professor at the newly founded “BioFemtoLabs” at Nanyang Technological University in the city-state of Singapore . Michel-Beyerle retired in 2000.
Her specialty is charge transfer in biological systems. Among other things, she investigated the spin dynamics in the recombination of radicals . She also investigated the structure of the photosynthetic reaction center in the chloroplasts of plants and set up a special research area that successfully crystallized a membrane protein and clarified its spatial structure using X-ray structure analysis, for which Hartmut Michel , Robert Huber and Johann Deisenhofer received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 .
Honors
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (May 18, 1995)
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (January 23, 2006)
- Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (2009).
Memberships
Michel-Beyerle has been the spokesperson for the EU research program Control of assembly and charge transport dynamics of immobilized DNA (CIDNA) since 2008 .
Web links
- Homepage at the Technical University of Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ TUM Emeriti of Excellence ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
- ↑ https://idw-online.de/de/news143790?print=1&id=143790 Dieter Heinrichsen : Highest award for TU chemist: Maria Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle receives Maximiliansorden, in: idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, accessed on: 11. March 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michel-Beyerle, Maria-Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |