Walter Neupert
Walter Neupert (born October 24, 1939 in Munich ; † June 22, 2019 ) was a German biochemist , physician and cell biologist .
Life
After studying in Munich, he received his doctorate in biochemistry from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1968 and in medicine in 1970. He then worked there until his habilitation in 1972 as a research assistant and then as a private lecturer. He followed a call from the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Göttingen in 1977. Since 1983 he has held the chair for Physiological Chemistry at the Medical Faculty at the Adolf Butenandt Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as the successor to Theodor Bücher . Neupert was a Fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried. He was also a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and, since 1994, a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . Since 1993 Neupert was also a member of the Leopoldina , the Schleiden Medal of which he was awarded in 1999.
plant
Neupert's research area was mitochondria . He showed for the first time that mitochondria can import proteins post-translationally. Neupert and co-workers characterized the import apparatus in its molecular details, including the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) in the matrix, which removes the pro-sequences from imported proteins.
His students include Franz-Ulrich Hartl (MPI for Biochemistry), Roland Lill (Professor in Marburg ) and Nikolaus Pfanner (Professor in Freiburg ). Neupert last lived in Germering .
Works
- For the biosynthesis of the proteins of the mitochondrial outer and inner membranes in Neurospora crassa . Munich 1970, dissertation, DNB 482119691
- On the biogenesis of mitochondria: About d. Installation of Amino acids in isolated mitochondria d. Flight muscle d. Migratory locust <Locusta migratoria> ad rat liver . Munich 1968, DNB 481612815
Awards
- 1998: Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1999: Schleiden Medal
- 2000: Otto Warburg Medal
- 2000: EB Wilson Medal
- 2000: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2003: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2003: Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Award
- 2008: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2015: Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold
- 2019: Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Neupert in the catalog of the German National Library
- neurotree.org
- Vita ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on uni-muenchen.de
- Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Prize 2003 uni-protocol.de
- Page about Neupert at the Academia Europaea, with photo
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Neupert obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , June 29, 2019, accessed on June 29, 2019 .
- ^ A b G. Schatz: Walter Neupert: Spellbound by Mitochondria . In: Biological Chemistry . tape 380 , no. 10 , October 1999, p. 1141-1142 , doi : 10.1515 / BC.1999.144 .
- ^ Bettina Bartz (Red.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 19th edition. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 .
- ↑ Member entry of Walter Neupert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
- ^ F. Ulrich Hartl, Richard Zimmermann, Nikolaus Pfanner: Walter Neupert (1939–2019) . In: Cell . tape 178 , no. 5 , 22 August 2019, ISSN 0092-8674 , p. 1031-1033 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cell.2019.07.041 ( cell.com [accessed August 24, 2019]).
- ↑ uni-halle.de (PDF; 692 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neupert, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist, physician and cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 2019 |