Rudolf Hausmann (doctor)

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Rudolf Hausmann (born August 25, 1929 in Schafisheim , Switzerland) is a German - Brazilian geneticist . He is a professor emeritus at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

Life

Rudolf Hausmann studied medicine in Rio de Janeiro . In 1955 he completed his studies with a medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . From 1956 to 1958 he was an assistant at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne . From 1959 to 1963 he worked in teaching and research at the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Rio de Janeiro and in 1964 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine , New York. From 1965 to 1967 he worked at the Southwest Center of Advanced Studies in Dallas (SCAS). Hausmann taught and researched from 1968 to 1994 as a professor of genetics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Hausmann deals scientifically with the genetics of bacteriophages (especially bacteriophage T7 ). Rudolf Hausmann became known as the co-author of Carsten Bresch (from the 2nd edition in 1970) of the work, which for many years also became the standard textbook in genetics internationally: Classical and Molecular Genetics . Hausmann has dealt intensively with the history of genetics and molecular biology in publications.

literature

  • Carsten Bresch, Rudolf Hausmann: Classical and Molecular Genetics. Third, expanded edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1972, ISBN 3-540-05802-8
  • Rudolf Hausmann: And wanted to try to understand life ... reflections on the history of molecular biology. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 978-3-534-11575-4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The SCAS is the predecessor of today's Molecular Biology Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
  2. ↑ see literature list Carsten Bresch, Rudolf Hausmann: Classical and molecular genetics
  3. ↑ see literature list: Rudolf Hausmann: ... and wanted to try to understand life ... considerations on the history of molecular biology
personal data
SURNAME Hausmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian physician and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schafisheim , Switzerland