Ute Deichmann

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Ute Deichmann (* 1951 ) is a German science historian and biologist . She is an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne and, as Adjunct Professor, director of the Jacques Loeb Center for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at the Ben Gurion University in Israel (Negev).

Life

Ute Deichmann received her doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on the history of science “Biologists under Hitler. The Expulsion of Jewish Scientists and the Development of Biological Research in Germany ”at the University of Cologne. Your doctoral supervisor was Benno Müller-Hill , a geneticist who spent many years studying the history of biomedicine and genetics during the Nazi era. She completed her habilitation in 2000 at the University of Cologne with a thesis on chemists and biochemists during the Nazi era (title: "Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemists and biochemists in the Nazi era"). Since 2000 she has headed a working group on the history of biology and chemistry at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne. From 2003 to 2007 she was research professor at the Leo Baeck Institute in London; there she was head of the project "Jews in German-speaking academia, 19th and 20th centuries".

In 2007 Deichmann was founding director of the Jacques Loeb Center for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba , which she has headed ever since. Since 2011 she has been an adjunct full professor at the Ben Gurion University and an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne.

Prizes and awards

  • 1995: Ladislaus Laszt Award from Ben-Gurion University, for "Biologists under Hitler"
  • 2005: Gmelin Beilstein Medal from the Society of German Chemists for “Fleeing, Participating, Forgetting. Chemists and biochemists in the Nazi era "
  • 2011: HIST 2009 Outstanding Paper Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society , for the article "'Molecular' versus 'Colloidal': Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900–1940"

Research program

  • The influence of the Nazi movement on biology, biochemistry and chemistry in Germany and the influence of the emigration of Jewish scientists from Germany on the science of the receiving countries
  • Participation and successes of German-Jewish scientists in various fields; personal and historical factors behind success or failure (joint project with Ulrich Charpa from the Leo Baeck Institute, London)
  • The early German-Israeli cooperation in science and the role of scientists in it
  • History of research concepts in the life sciences since the 19th century, especially classical and molecular genetics, developmental biology, protein chemistry, synthetic biology and developmental genetics
  • Analysis of approaches that deviate from this, such as holistic or mechanical, morphological or chemical concepts and their scientific fruitfulness
  • To study the role of scientific authority (Polanyi) on scientific advancement in the history of genetics, biochemistry and developmental biology
  • Analysis of the history of ideas and the practices of developmental biology
  • The role of the scientific personality in experimental biology of the 19th and 20th centuries

Book publications (selection)

  • Biologists under Hitler. Displacement, careers, research. Foreword by Benno Müller-Hill. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 1992, ISBN 978-3-593-34763-9 (dissertation University of Cologne 1990, 370 pages); Revised and expanded edition: Biologists under Hitler. Portrait of a science in the Nazi state (= Fischer TB Volume 12597: History: The time of National Socialism. ). Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12597-9 .
    • English as: Biologist under Hitler . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA / London 1996, ISBN 0-674-07404-1 .
  • Women in Genetics: Research and Careers through 1950 . In: Renate Tobies (Ed.): “All male culture in spite of”. Women in math and science . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 221 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Escape, join in, forget. Chemist and biochemist under National Socialism. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim / New York, NY / Chichester / Brisbane / Singapore / Toronto 2001, ISBN 3-527-30264-6 (Habilitation thesis University of Cologne 2000, 596 pages).
  • Protein research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes from 1930 to 1950 in an international comparison (= research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism , Volume 21). Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Presidential Commission, Berlin 2004, DNB 973286423

Published books

  • with Ulrich Charpa (Ed.): Jews and Sciences in German Contexts. Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149121-4 ( English ).
  • with Simone Wenkel 2007: Max Delbrück and Cologne. An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology , World Scientific Publ.
  • with Ulrich Charpa: Focus on the history of science , in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute , Vol. 3, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 149–312.
  • with AS Travis 2008: Philosophies in Modern Biology , in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences , 30 (1).
  • with AS Travis 2010: Special Section: Darwinism and Scientific Practice in Historical Perspective. Guest Editors' Introduction , in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 41 (1), 55-60.
  • with M. Morange, E. Davidson, 2011: Animal evolution as the reformulation of developmental gene regulatory programs: Historical origins and current impact on research and theory , in: Developmental Biology 357 (1).
  • with M. Morange 2012: Origin of Life. Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Perspectives , in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences , Volume 3.

Articles in journals (selection)

  • (1998). with Benno Müller-Hill : The fraud of Abderhalden's enzymes. In: Nature. No. 339, 1998, pp. 109-111.
  • (2012). U. Deichmann, M. Morange, and AS Travis. (2012). Editors' Introduction to Special Issue . Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (4): 470-472.
  • (2012). Crystals, Colloids or Molecules? Early Controversies about the Origin of Life and Synthetic Life , Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (4): 521-542.
  • (2012). Beyond Popper and Polanyi: Leonor Michaelis, a critical and passionate pioneer of research at the interface of medicine, enzymology, and physical chemistry , Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (4): 612-626.
  • (2012). Culture and Identity in Science. The contribution of Jewish researchers to the international importance of German natural science - a Jewish contribution? , Proceedings of the Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam, in press
  • (2012). Origin of life. The role of experiments, basic beliefs, and social authorities in the controversies about the spontaneous generation of life and the subsequent debates about synthesizing life in the laboratory , History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 34 (3): 341-360.
  • (2011). Michael Polanyi on Scientific Authority and his Criticisms of Popper and Russell , Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 56: 2419-268. London: Oxford University Press.
  • (2011). Early 20th Century Research at the Interfaces of Genetics, Development, and Evolution: Reflections on Progress and Dead Ends, Developmental Biology 357: 3-12.
  • (2010). Chemistry and Engineering Life around 1900 - Research and Reflections by Jacques Loeb, Biological Theory 4 (4): 323-332.
  • (2010). Gemmules and Elements: On Darwin's and Mendel's Concepts and Methods in Heredity, Journal for General Philosophy 41: 31-58.
  • (2008). "Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery - a Revolutionary Conservative", in Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich (eds.), Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 154-173.
  • (2008). Politics and research: Heinrich Wieland and other chemists during the Nazi era, in Sibylle Wieland, Anne-Barb Hertkorn, Franziska Dunkel (ed.), Heinrich Wieland. Naturalist, Nobel Prize Winner and Willstätters Uhr, Wiley-VCH, pp. 81-114.
  • (2008). "Different Methods and Metaphysics in Early Molecular Genetics - A Case of Disparity of Research?", History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 30: 57-82.
  • (2007). "Molecular" versus "Colloidal": Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900-1940, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 32: 105-118.
  • (with Ulrich Charpa), (2007). Problems, Phenomena, Explanatory Approaches - Introduction by the Editors, in Charpa and Deichmann, Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, pp. 3-36.
  • (2007). 'I Detest his Way of Working'. Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949), Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) and Jewish and non-Jewish Biochemists in Germany, in Charpa and Deichmann, Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, pp. 101-126.
  • (2007). Empiricism and the Discreteness of Nature: Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1998), the Founder of Microbiology, in Charpa and Deichmann, Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, pp. 39-50.
  • (2007). A Brief Review of the Early History of Genetics and its Relationship to Physics and Chemistry, in Wenkel and Deichmann, Max Delbrück in Cologne. An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology, pp. 3-18.
  • (with Ulrich Charpa), (2007). Jewish Scientists as Geniuses and Epigones - Scientific Practices and Attitudes towards them: Albert Einstein, Ferdinand Cohn, Richard Goldschmidt, Studia Rosenthaliana, 40, 12–55.
  • (2007), Collective Phenomena and the Neglect of Molecules: An Historical Outlook on Biology, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29, 83-92.
  • (2002), chemists and biochemists during the Nazi era, in: Angewandte Chemie 2002, 114, 1364–1383.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To the German National Library
  2. see the centre's homepage at http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/loeb/Pages/default.aspx
  3. ^ Entry at philpapers.org
  4. ^ Review of the extended edition from 1995 by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in Reports on the History of Science 20 (1997), pp. 251-252