Roger Stanier

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Roger Yate Stanier (born October 22, 1916 in Victoria , British Columbia , † January 29, 1982 in Bullion , France ) was a Canadian microbiologist . He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1971 worked at the Pasteur Institute. His book The Microbial World was considered a standard work in the field for several decades.

Live and act

Stanier earned a bachelor's degree in bacteriology from the University of British Columbia in 1936 . In 1938 he attended a summer course with Cornelis Bernardus van Niel at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University in Pacific Grove and then began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles , which he completed in 1939 with a master's in bacteriology. His Ph.D. Stanier acquired again in 1942 from van Niel in Pacific Grove. He then worked as production manager for Merck & Co., Inc. in the war-essential mass production of penicillin in Canada, before going to Cambridge University in England for a year as a Guggenheim fellow .

In 1947 Stanier became a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley , where he remained for 24 years and made major contributions to microbiology, particularly with regard to the taxonomy , metabolism , physiology and structure of bacteria and the position of prokaryotes within biological domains . In 1956 he married Germaine Cohen-Bazire (1920-2001), who was also a microbiologist. The couple had a daughter. Roger Stanier's standard work The Microbial World , first published in 1957, has been reprinted five times. In 1960/1961 he was on a sabbatical with Jacques Monod in Paris.

In 1971 Stanier retired early in Berkeley and moved to the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he worked for the last ten years of his life. Stanier pays particular attention to the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), which he described for the first time in 1974 .

Awards (selection)

In 2001, the Biological Implications of Pathogenicity (BIOP) specialist group was re-established as the Stanier Institute / Institut Stanier in honor of Stanier . The institute publishes the Journal of Hygiene Science .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of California: Roger Yate Stanier, Bacteriology: Berkeley. In Memoriam, 1992. In: texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Roger Y. Stanier. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award Past Laureates. (No longer available online.) In: asm.org. January 12, 2016, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on February 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed May 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ entry on Stanier; Roger Yate (1916-1982) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  6. ^ Certificates of Election and Candidature in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  7. ↑ KNAW Historisch Ledenstock - Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum. In: dwc.knaw.nl. June 1, 2010, accessed February 13, 2016 (Dutch).
  8. ^ Leeuwenhoek Medal at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (knaw.nl); accessed on February 13, 2016
  9. ↑ Les membres du passé dont le nom commence par S - List of membres depuis la création de l'Académie des sciences -. In: academie-sciences.fr. Retrieved February 13, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Stanier, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanier, Roger Yate; Stanier, Roger Y.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria (British Columbia)
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1982
Place of death Bullion (Yvelines)