Thomas Trautner
Thomas A. Trautner (born April 3, 1932 in Göttingen ) is a German biologist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
Trautner studied microbiology at the University of Göttingen from 1950 and then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , where he and his cousin Carsten Bresch introduced bacteriophages into genetic research .
From 1953 to 1954 he was a Fulbright fellow at Urbana University in Illinois and from 1964 until his retirement in 2000 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
His main area of research was problems of DNA replication and function in bacteriophages.
In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . Trautner is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Trautner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page at the BBAW
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory of members: Thomas Trautner. Academia Europaea, accessed July 24, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautner, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trautner, Thomas A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |