Peter Böger

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Peter Böger (born March 23, 1935 in Bremerhaven ; † October 22, 2015 in Konstanz ) was a German biologist and botanist.

Life

Peter Böger studied biology at the universities in Göttingen and Munich . In Göttingen he joined the fraternity of Hannovera . In 1959 he worked together with Werner Thies for nine months on a DFG project combating cotton pests in Egypt. It was in 1963 with the work The Strukturproteid from chloroplasts of unicellular green algae and its relationship to chlorophyll at the University of Göttingen to Dr. rer. nat. PhD and was a research assistant at the Plant Physiological Institute there. From 1964 to 1967 he worked at the CF Kettering Research Lab. in Yellow Springs , Ohio , then scientific assistant at the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne . In 1970 he moved to the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he completed his habilitation with a paper on algae ferrodoxins. In 1972 Böger was offered the chair of plant physiology and biochemistry at the young University of Konstanz and was significantly involved in the development of the biology department. From 1981 to 1990 he was dean of the faculty. In 2003 he retired.

The focus of his work was plant physiology and plant biochemistry as well as nitrogen fixation and bioenergetics in cyanobakleries. He was involved in numerous scientific committees. He researched the molecular mode of action of herbicides. He was General Secretary of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology , the world's largest scientific botanical society. He was the spokesman for two special research areas of the German Research Foundation .

literature

  • Who is who? Volume 26, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1987, page 123.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Böger's obituary , Südkurier , accessed on November 4, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Peter Böger: Photosynthesis and Plant Productivity , 1975, p. 45 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Böger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2015
Place of death Constancy