Walter Harm (biologist)

Walter Harm (* 1925 in Berlin (uncertain)) is a German radiation biologist .

life and work

Harm did his doctorate on reactivation of bacteria at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology and Hereditary Pathology in Berlin . In 1955 he and his wife Helga Harm completed the so-called Cold Spring Harbor Phage Course , i.e. special studies on phages at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, as one of the first German scientists . In 1958 he received the Venia Legendi for microbiology at the University of Frankfurt am Main . A year later he continued the radiation tests he had started in Frankfurt / Main at Max Delbrück's laboratory at the California Institute of Technology . This research was funded by the American National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis .

At the end of 1958 Harm was appointed as an associate professor at the Institute for Genetics under construction at the University of Cologne. Here Harm's research group in the field of radiation biology took part in phage research with three other research groups around Carsten Bresch , Peter Starlinger and Ulf Henning . Like Carsten Bresch, Harm moved to the University of Dallas in 1965 .

In 1963, Walter Harm was one of the first researchers to describe an enzyme system that is also responsible for DNA repair.

Harm was the author of the work "Biological Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation."

swell

Simone Wenkel: Molecular biology in Germany from 1945 to 1975. An international comparison. (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: kups.ub.uni-koeln.de. Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2020 (there are some statements about Walter Harm).

Web links

Literature by and about Walter Harm (biologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Simone Wenkel: Molecular Biology in Germany from 1945 to 1975.
↑ ^a ^b Alexander von Schwerin: The Endangered Organism - Biology and Government of the Dangers at the Transition from the "Atomic Age" to Environmental Policy ( 1950-1970) . In: Florence Vienne (Hrsg.): Human knowledge object: human scientific practices in the 20th century . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86599-062-4 , p. 204 ( google.de ).
^ The medical world, 1958, Schattauer Verlag.
^ Walter Harm: Biological effects of ultraviolet radiation (book presentation). In: Cambridge.org. Camebridge University Press, accessed May 12, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Harm, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German radiation biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin (unsure)

[:1-1] Simone Wenkel: Molecular Biology in Germany from 1945 to 1975.

[:0-2] Alexander von Schwerin: The Endangered Organism - Biology and Government of the Dangers at the Transition from the "Atomic Age" to Environmental Policy ( 1950-1970) . In: Florence Vienne (Hrsg.): Human knowledge object: human scientific practices in the 20th century . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86599-062-4 , p. 204 ( google.de ).

[3] The medical world, 1958, Schattauer Verlag.

[4] Walter Harm: Biological effects of ultraviolet radiation (book presentation). In: Cambridge.org. Camebridge University Press, accessed May 12, 2020 .