Sinaida Rosenthal

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Sinaida Rosenthal (born February 22, 1932 in Berlin ; † November 21, 1988 there ) was a German biochemist and molecular biologist . From 1969 to 1972 she worked as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and then until her death as a division manager at the Central Institute for Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Life

Sinaida Rosenthal b. Gejelka was born in Berlin in 1932 and studied medicine at the Humboldt University there from 1950 to 1955 , where she also received her doctorate in 1960 and completed her habilitation in 1969 under the supervision of Samuel Mitja Rapoport . In the same year she was appointed Professor of Physiology and Biology at Humboldt University. In 1972 she moved to the Central Institute for Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch , where she worked as head of genetics until her death . She died in 1988 in her hometown of cancer .

Sinaida Rosenthal's research focused on molecular biological and genetic aspects of physiology as well as the application of genetic engineering . In 1972 she was accepted as a corresponding member and in 1974 as a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1983 she was also a corresponding member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR . She was married to Hans-Alfred Rosenthal , who was director of the Institute for Virology at Humboldt University until 1989. One of her two sons is the genome researcher André Rosenthal .

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SURNAME Rosenthal, Sinaida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gejelka, Sinaida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1988
Place of death Berlin