Gottfried Schatz
Gottfried Schatz (born 18 August 1936 in Strem, Austria) is a Swiss - Austrian biochemist. He played a leading role in elucidating the biogenesis of mitochondria and was a co-discoverer of mitochondrial DNA.[1]
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[edit] Life and career
Upon obtaining his PhD in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Graz (Austria), he did postdoctoral work at the University of Vienna and at "The Public Health Institute" of the City of New York. In 1968, he emigrated to the USA in order to assume a professorship Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Six years later, he returned to Europe in order to join the newly created Biocenter at the University of Basel, which he chaired from 1983 to 1985, From 1984 to 1989 he was Secretary General of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). After his retirement in 2000, he presided the Swiss Science and Technology Council (SSTC) until 2003. He is the author of more than 200 professional publications as well as of two books of essays on the broader implications of science. His scientific autobiography "Interplanetary travels"[2] was published in 2000.
[edit] Honorary Memberships and Prizes
- 1967 Innitzer Prize
- 1983 Emil Christian Hansen Gold Medal, Carlsberg Foundation
- 1985 Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society
- 1986 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1986 Sir Hans Krebs Medal, FEBS
- 1987 Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1988 Otto Warburg Medal, German Biochemical Society
- 1988 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1989 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 1991 Cross of Honor for Science and Arts, Republic of Austria
- 1993 Schleiden Medal, Deutsche Akademie Leopoldina
- 1993 Foreign Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1993 Prix Marcel Benoist
- 1994 Member, de:Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1996 Honorary Doctorate, Comenius University in Bratislava
- 1997 Lynen Medal, University of Miami, USA
- 1997 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Gairdner Award, Toronto
- 1998 Foreign Member, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
- 2000 Silver Medal of Merit, Republic of Austria
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate, Stockholm University
- 2000 Wilson Medal, American Society of Cell Biology
- 2004 Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, Rome
- 2006 Reinach Prize
- 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2009 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 2009 European Prize for Culture in Science,[3] European Foundation for Culture «Pro Europa»[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Ellen Haslbrunner, Hans Tuppy and Gottfried Schatz (1964 at the Institut for Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria): "Deoxyribonucleic Acid Associated with Yeast Mitochondria" (PDF) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 15, 127 - 132.
- ^ Gottfried Schatz: Interplanetary travels - A scientific autobiography (Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry, edited by G. Semenza and R. Jaenicke: Personal Recollections VI - Comprehensive Biochemistry Vol.41, Chapter 9, p. 449-530 - Elsevier Science B.V., 2000)
- ^ Science Information Service Basel, Switzerland, 25.08.2009
- ^ Kulturstiftung "Pro Europa"
[edit] Books for a general audience
- Gottfried Schatz: Feuersucher: Die Jagd nach dem Geheimnis der Lebensenergie - NZZ Buchverlag, Zürich, 2011 - ISBN 3038236772
- Gottfried Schatz: A Matter of Wonder. What Biology Reveals about Us, Our World, and Our Dreams (Translated by A. Shields). S. Karger AG, Basel, 2011 – ISBN 978-3-8055-9744-9
- Gottfried Schatz: Jeff’s View on Science and Scientists,. Elsevier BV/FEBS 2006 - ISBN 978-0-444-52133-0
- Gottfried Schatz: Jenseits der Gene. Essays über unser Wesen, unsere Welt und unsere Träume, NZZ Libro, 2012 (4. Aufl.) - ISBN 978-3-03823-780-8; Audio Version on CD: Kein & Aber, 2008 - ISBN 978-3036912462
- Gottfried Schatz: Die Welt in der wir leben: Ein Biologe über unser Wesen, unsere Träume und den Grund der Dinge - Herder, 2010 - ISBN 3451057921 (vergriffen).
- Gottfried Schatz: Feuersucher: Die Jagd nach dem Geheimnis der Lebensenergie. NZZ Libro, Zürich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-677-1.
- Gottfried Schatz: Zaubergarten Biologie. Wie biologische Entdeckungen unser Menschenbild prägen. NZZ Libro, Zürich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-753-2
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