Urs Wyss

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Urs Wyss (born April 13, 1939 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss phytopathologist and entomologist .

Life

Urs Wyss is the son of the businessman Hans Wyss and his wife Jilly née Krause. After a short work as a horticultural intern in the family business and the recruiting school in the Swiss Army on Monte Ceneri , Wyss studied horticultural science at the University of Reading . There he met his first wife Phoebe Wyss (* 1941), who studied English and philosophy in Reading, later taught English in Hanover and has been professionally involved in astrology since 1985. This marriage resulted in two children.

In 1964 Urs and Phoebe Wyss went to Hanover together at the Technical University of Hanover . Urs Wyss worked on root nematodes for Eckart Mayer at the Institute for Plant Diseases there . His work culminated in a dissertation and finally in a habilitation on the subject of plant parasitic roundworms. Since 1970 Urs Wyss has been making films on the behavior of the animals examined in collaboration with the Institute for Scientific Film (IWF, Göttingen).

In 1978 Urs Wyss became C3 professor for phytomedicine at the TU Hannover. When he was offered a C4 professorship at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1982 , he accepted and became head of the institute for phytopathology in Kiel . In addition to many other nematode species, the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii received special attention. One of Urs Wyss's students was Carsten Höller , who completed his habilitation in 1993 with a thesis on olfactory communication between insects, but then turned professionally to art.

Jan Hendrik Olbertz (then President of the Humboldt University), Urs Wyss and Annelene Wyss-Wortmann in the auditorium of the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2011

In 1990 Urs Wyss turned down an offer at the University of Hohenheim . He stayed in Kiel, was Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences from 1992 to 1994 and was retired there in 2004. Urs Wyss lives with his second wife Annelene (called Lea) Wyss-Wortmann in Kiel. Under the name Entofilm, he produces films about arthropods that are useful and harmful in crop production . On his 75th birthday there were already over 70 films on this subject.

Honors

Scientific films

Web links

Commons : Urs Wyss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Michael Poehling (2012): Laudation for Prof. Dr. Urs Wyss on the occasion of the award of the Karl Escherich Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology on March 21, 2011 in Berlin. Announcements of the DGaaE 18: 17–22. pdf
  2. ↑ a b c Friedhelm Taube (2005): Welcome. In: Greetings and lectures on the farewell to Prof. Dr. Urs Wyss. Series of publications by the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Kiel 104: 217–225.
  3. ↑ Urs Wyss: Investigations on the appearance of migratory root nematodes harmful to strawberry cultures in Lower Saxony: with a contribution to the ecology and biology of Longidorus elongatus (de Man, 1876) Thorne & Swanger, 1936. Hanover, Technical University, Faculty of Horticulture and National Culture, dissertation, 1969.
  4. ↑ Urs Wyss: Investigations on the biology and pathogenicity of migrating root nematodes with special consideration of the carriers of phytopathogenic viruses. Hanover, Technical University, habilitation thesis, 1975.
  5. ↑ Joseph-Alexander Verreet (2014): Prof. Dr. Urs Wyss is 75th Bauernblatt 164: 49.
personal data
SURNAME Wyss, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss phytopathologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn