Otto Lüderitz

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Otto Lüderitz (born March 2, 1920 in Iserlohn ; † November 30, 2015 ) was a German immunologist .

life and work

Lüderitz studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen from 1940 , where he received his doctorate in 1945 . After years as an assistant at the University of Göttingen (1945–1947) and years of research in Switzerland and the USA (1947–1962), he became a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963 . There he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society in 1965 and Director (until 1988) at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology.

He and his group researched the structure of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) as surface antigens of gram-negative bacteria from lipid A, core region and polysaccharide chain and showed that the lipid A part acts as an endotoxin .

In 1965 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and career data according to the yearbook of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, 1969, published by the General Administration of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Munich 1969, p. 93.
  2. ↑ see obituary in the SZ
personal data
SURNAME Lüderitz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2015