Wilhelm Nultsch

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Wilhelm Nultsch (born March 20, 1927 in Magdeburg ; † May 23, 2011 ) was a German botanist .

Life

Wilhelm Nultsch went to school in Quedlinburg until 1944 , before he was drafted for the final years of the war . From 1946 to 1951 he studied chemistry, biology , philosophy and education at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1953 he was at John Buder in the field of plant physiology Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate and habilitation in Halle in 1959 . From 1960 to 1966 Nultsch was employed at the Botanical Institute of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen as a lecturer under Erwin Bünning . In 1966 he was appointed to the professorship for botany at the Philipps University in Marburg . From 1966 to 1970 he was director of the Botanical Institute and from 1966 to 1975 of the Botanical Garden . From 1966 until his retirement in 1995, Nultsch held the position of full professor in Marburg. For four years (1994–1998) he was director of the Biological Institute Helgoland , Hamburg headquarters.

From 1985 to 1994 he was President of the German Botanical Society . In addition, Nultsch was President of the European Society for Photobiology from 1991 to 1993 . He died at the age of 84.

research

Nultsch did research in the fields of plant physiology , photobiology and marine botany . He wrote about 150 original publications in various international journals.

Books

He is also the author of various books, including the microscopic-botanical internship and general botany , which was published in 1964 as the very first textbook in paperback format.

  • General botany . 11th edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2001, 663 pages, ISBN 978-3133833110
  • Microscopic and botanical internship for beginners . 11th edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2001, 201 pages, ISBN 978-3134403114
  • General and Molecular Botany . 1st edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2008, 1000 pages, ISBN 978-3131476616
  • Flower power . Thieme, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3131241412
  • Investigations into the movement and reaction behavior of the flagellate Chlamydomonas reinhardtii . Steiner Franz Verlag, 1998, 37 pages, ISBN 978-3515052245
  • The influence of light on the movement of phototrophic microorganisms . 1974, ISBN 978-3770512102
  • Phototactic examinations on individual cells of ?.
  • About the role of the two photo systems in photo phobotaxis .
  • Determination of the photo-phobotactic difference wave at ?.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laudation for Prof. Dr. Nultsch (PDF; 0.5 MB), accessed on February 3, 2020
  2. ^ Obituary notice , accessed on May 29, 2011
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Nultsch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2011