Maria Kobel

Maria Kobel (born August 5, 1897 in Liegnitz , Silesia , today Poland ; † August 14, 1996 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German chemist and later head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry .

Life

She studied chemistry at the University of Breslau from 1918 to 1921 and received her doctorate in 1921 with the thesis "About the substances called glyoxylurea in the literature". In 1921 she moved to Berlin , where she worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem from 1925 to 1936. Between 1929 and 1936 she held the post of head of the tobacco research department . After Carl Neuberg was expelled and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry was temporarily closed as a result, she was employed at the “Hofmann House” in Berlin from 1936. From 1941 she was part of the editorial team of the “Beilstein” manual , and later headed a department . The editorial team was in Berlin until 1945, then in Frankfurt / M .. In 1962, she retired here.

Maria Kobel's scientific achievements concerned ferment research . In the handbook “The Methods of Ferment Research” by Bamann / Myrbäck she published several articles.

literature

• Bamann Eugen, Karl Myrbäck (Ed.): The methods of fermentation research . 4 volumes. Thieme, Leipzig 1941.
• Hinderk Conrads, Brigitte Lohff: Carl Neuberg - Biochemistry, Politics and History. The life and work of an almost displaced researcher . Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08894-6 , ( History and Philosophy of Medicine 4).
• Michael Engel : History of Dahlem . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-87061-155-3 .
• Michael Engel: Paradigm Shift and Exodus. Cell biology, cell chemistry and biochemistry . In: Wolfram Fischer et al. (Ed.): Exodus of sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Developments before and after 1933. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-11-013945-6 , ( Academy of Sciences in Berlin - Research Report 7), pp. 296–342.
• Fritz Lieben: History of Physiological Chemistry . With a foreword by Edith Heischkel-Artelt . Reprographic reprint of the Leipzig and Vienna edition 1935. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1970, esp. Pp. 257, 369, 520.
• Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The biographical dictionary of women in science. Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century . Volume 1: A - K . Routledge, New York et al. 2000, ISBN 0-415-92039-6 , p. 711.
• Annette Vogt : From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08881-7 , ( Pallas Athene 17).
• Annette Vogt: Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. A - Z . 2nd expanded edition. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-927579-12-5 , ( publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society 12), pp. 98-100.