Peter Spork

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Peter Spork (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany ) is a German science journalist and book author.

Live and act

Peter Spork (also Peter Spork-Frischling) studied biology, anthropology and psychology in Marburg and Hamburg. In 1995 he received his doctorate in neurobiology at the Zoological Institute in Hamburg. Since 1991 Spork has been writing popular science articles for many German-language newspapers and magazines, including Die Zeit , Geo Wissen, Bild der Wissenschaft , FAZ , Frankfurter Rundschau , Tages-Anzeiger Zurich and Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 2018 he has published his own online magazine Erbe & Umwelt: What shapes health and personality at RiffReporter .

Since 2001 he has published a children's non-fiction book on biology and several non-fiction books for adults on the subjects of sleep research / sleep medicine, chronobiology , epigenetics and health at Rowohlt Verlag , Hanser Verlag and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, DVA .

His book The Second Code , published in 2009, is considered the first popular scientific work on epigenetics.

In his book Health is no coincidence , published in 2017, he calls for a redefinition of the concept of health on the basis of the latest findings in gene regulation research (especially epigenetics) and the latest knowledge about perinatal imprinting. Health is therefore a permanent process that spans generations and not the opposite or the absence of illness. In addition, Spork calls for a new biology of inheritance.

Peter Spork's books have been translated into many languages ​​including Italian, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Korean, and Russian. Spork has been the author and publisher of the Epigenetics newsletter since 2010 . Spork also gives lectures to experts and laypeople at home and abroad on the topics of sleep research , chronobiology , epigenetics and biology for children. There are also appearances on television (u. A. ARD alpha forum Nachtcafé , Johannes B. Kerner ) and radio (u. A. Hallo Ü-Wagen , SWR2 forum, Germany Kultur culture interview several radio presentations at SWR2 Aula). The Germany radio called him "The [n] man who made epigenetics popular".

Book publications

  • Optomotor control of swarm cohesion in migrating desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål ). Dissertation, Hamburg 1995 (Spork-Frischling, Peter).
  • The snoring book. Causes, risks, antidotes for snoring and sleep apnea . rororo 2001. Revised and expanded new editions: rororo 2007, Mabuse-Verlag 2019. Also in Bulgarian, Dutch and Polish.
  • The clockwork of nature. Chronobiology - living with the times . rororo science, 2004.
  • Higher faster further. Top performance in nature . rororo rotfuchs, 2006. For children aged eight and over, also as an audio book, in Korean and Thai.
  • The sleep book. Why we sleep and how we can best succeed . Rowohlt, 2007. Also in Italian, Greek, Hungarian and Russian.
  • The second code. Epigenetics - or how we can control our genetic makeup . Rowohlt, 2009. Also in Dutch, Polish, Korean and Russian.
  • Wake up! Departure to a good rested society . Hanser, 2014. Also in Korean.
  • Health is not a coincidence. How life shapes our genes. The latest in epigenetics . DVA, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04750-2

DVD

  • The second code - epigenetics. How the environment shapes our genes . Jokers Edition Hörsaal, in cooperation with Auditorium Netzwerk, 2012.
  • Health is not a coincidence. Jokers Edition Hörsaal, in cooperation with Auditorium Netzwerk, 2019.

Awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography
  2. ↑ Work samples from Peter Spork
  3. ↑ RiffReporter: Heritage and Environment: What shapes health and personality. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Quote from the American epigeneticist Randy Jirtle: "The Second Code, the first popular book on epigenetics."
  5. ^ Author's page at Rowohlt-Verlag
  6. ^ Website of the epigenetics newsletter
  7. ↑ Event information
  8. ↑ Interview on Deutschlandfunk
  9. ↑ Link list
personal data
SURNAME Spork, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spork rookie, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main