Max (* 4 September 1906 in Berlin; "† 9. March 1981 in Pasadena, California) was a German Genetiker and bio physicist US-American starting from 1945.

Family

was the youngest son of the historian Hans and great-grandchild of Justus Liebig. Further ancestors and used from the family see there.

Since 1941 it was married with Mary Bruce. The married couple had four children.

Life

studied astronomy at the University of Goettingen first, came then however over again discovered quantum mechanics to theoretical physics. In this field of activity it attained a doctorate 1929.

After some foreign stays he worked starting from 1932 on the institute for emperor William for chemistry in Berlin Dahlem, among other things as an assistant of Lise Meitner and Otto cock. Not national Institut kept also under the rule of the national socialism a certain independence and attracted so international researchers.

On suggestion of Niels bore turned it to the interdisciplinary work with biology here. it published 1935 together with the Genetiker Nikolai Timofejew Ressowski a work over Genmutationen, in which they suggested as first understanding genes as complex atomic federations. With it the modern genetics began.

1937 had become too large the political influence on the research; emigrierte into the USA. Here it - first at the Caltech, then in New York and Nashville, starting from 1947 again at the Caltech - researched over bacteriophages. Into the 1940ern he co-operated closely with Salvador Luria, with which together he cleared the processprocess process up of the bacteriophages. Also with Alfred Day Hershey he exchanged soon information. With their investigations the three scientists created bases of modern molecular biology and genetics.

But it received 1969 together with Hershey and Luria to the Nobelpreis for medicine.

As a biology professor at the Caltech (until 1977) it continued to research in several areas. Emphasis was thereby apart from the sense physiology also the Quantenchemie and mutations, approximately with the baptizing couch Drosophila.

1962 had been already created with his support Institut for genetics at the university to Cologne.

earnings/services in the broader sense is above all the introduction of mathematical models and scientific methods to biology. Also its appeal to the and for the open co-operation of the scientific municipality, which it supported by its own example, made school and brought it acknowledgment.

See also: Fluctuation test

Works

• Over the nature of the Genmutation and the gene structure. (together with Nicolaj W. Ressovsky and Karl room) feasting man, Berlin 1935
• Truth and reality: Over the evolution of recognizing. Rapidly and Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-89136-058-4

Related links

• Biografie for '' the Nobel committee ''
• Article of netzeitung.de

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