Wolfgang Baumeister

Wolfgang Baumeister (born November 22, 1946 in Wesseling near Cologne) is a German biologist and biophysicist .

The main focus of his work is the research of molecular cell structures. Since 1988 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry . Under his leadership u. a. developed cryoelectron tomography .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wolfgang Baumeister studied biology in Münster and Bonn and received his doctorate in 1973 from the University of Düsseldorf. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in biophysics there. From 1981 to 1982 he was a Heisenberg Fellow in the Physics Department of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University , UK.

In 1983 he was appointed head of the “Molecular Structural Biology” working group at the MPI for Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich . In addition, he was an adjunct professor (apl.) At the University of Düsseldorf from 1984 to 1987 and has been an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Munich , Faculty of Chemistry , since 1987 . In 1988 he was appointed Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried. Since 2000 he has also been an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Physics.

Honors

Baumeister has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2000, the Academy of German Natural Scientists Leopoldina since 2001, the National Academy of Sciences since 2010, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003.

1982: Ernst Ruska Prize from the German Society for Electron Microscopy
1998: Otto Warburg Medal from the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2000: Max Planck Research Award
2003: Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
2003: I. & H. Wachter Award, I. & H. Wachter Foundation
2004: Stein & Moore Award , Protein Society, USA
2005: Harvey Prize , Technion, Haifa, Israel
2005: Schleiden Medal
2006: Ernst Schering Prize
2008: Science Prize Biochemical Analysis of the DGKL , endowed with 50,000 euros
2018: Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold
2019: Science Prize: Research between Fundamentals and Applications by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Max Planck Society
2019: Van Deenen Medal

Web links

Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Wolfgang Baumeister. (pdf) Leopoldina, 2010.; accessed on April 19, 2019
Homepage of the Baumeister department. MPI for Biochemistry(English).; accessed on April 19, 2019
Homepage Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Baumeister. tum.de; accessed on April 19, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry of Wolfgang P. Baumeister (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 27, 2016.
↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Baumeister (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 27, 2016.
^ Awardee 2003: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang P. Baumeister. Wachterstiftung, accessed on April 19, 2019 (English).
↑ Technion Honors. technion.ac.il, accessed April 19, 2019 .
↑ Wolfgang Baumeister receives Stifterverband Prize. June 26, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Master builder, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist and biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wesseling near Cologne

[1] Member entry of Wolfgang P. Baumeister (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 27, 2016.

[2] Member entry of Wolfgang Baumeister (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 27, 2016.

[3] Awardee 2003: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang P. Baumeister. Wachterstiftung, accessed on April 19, 2019 (English).

[4] Technion Honors. technion.ac.il, accessed April 19, 2019 .

[5] Wolfgang Baumeister receives Stifterverband Prize. June 26, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 .