Peter Nuhn
Peter Nuhn (born May 9, 1937 in Deutsch Krone ) is a German pharmacist and natural product chemist . According to his university, Nuhn is considered the "Nestor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Germany".
Life
Nuhn studied pharmacy from 1955 to 1960 at the University of Leipzig . He received his doctorate in 1964 and completed his habilitation in 1970. In 1975 he was appointed lecturer for natural product chemistry at the University of Leipzig, in 1980 he was appointed to a professorship for pharmaceutical chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he was Professor Emeritus in 2002.
He is the author of a standard textbook on natural product chemistry and was also involved in establishing the Collaborative Research Center “Bio and Model Membranes” at the universities of Jena and Halle-Wittenberg in 1993.
Publications (selection)
- Natural product chemistry: microbial, plant and animal natural products (with the assistance of Ludger Wessjohann), 4th, revised. Stuttgart: Hirzel-Verlag 2006 (first edition 1981), ISBN 978-3-7776-1363-5 .
- (with Hans-Jörg-Hofmann): Molecular mechanisms of action of pharmaceuticals: an introduction to molecular pharmacology , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1985 (Scientific pocket books, volume 294).
- LSD - cultural history of a fashion drug . In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , edition 22/2005, text online .
- The effects of LSD were discovered 70 years ago . In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung No. 15/2013, p. 70 text online .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Nuhn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nuhn, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and natural product chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | German crown |