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Robert Huber
Huber, Robert (1937-) is a German biochemist. He won the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling the full details of how a membrane-bound protein is built up, revealing the structure of the molecule, atom by atom.
GERMAN BIOLOGISTS
German biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, German biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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Friedrich LofflerLoffler, Friedrich August Johannes (1852-1915), a German bacteriologist. In 1882, Loffler discovered the bacilli causing glanders and swine erysipelas. See more »
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Alois Alzheimer
Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who in 1907 first described a brain disease that later was named for him. See more »
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August Paul von Wassermann
Wassermann, August von (1866-1925), a German bacteriologist. In 1906 he devised the Wassermann blood test for diagnosing syphilis. See more »
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August Weismann
Weismann, August (1834-1914), a German biologist, developed the germ-plasm theory of heredity. See more »
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Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
Von Mueller, Baron Ferdinand (1825-1896) was a German-born Australian botanist who made extensive contributions to the knowledge of native Australian plants. See more »
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Bert Sakmann
Sakmann, Bert (1942-) is a German physiologist. He won a share of the 1991 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how ions flow in and out of cells. See more »
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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Nüsslein-Volhard, Christane (1942-), a German geneticist, was the first German woman Nobel laureate in science. See more »
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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich (1834-1919), a German zoologist and philosopher. Haeckel was the chief popularizer on the European continent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. See more »
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Feodor Lynen
Lynen, Feodor (1911-1976) was a German biochemist who studied how cells produce cholesterol and lipids, which are fatty substances. See more »
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Ferdinand Cohn
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius (1828-1898), a German botanist, often called the founder of bacteriology. See more »
