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Carsten Bresch (September 5, 1921 in Berlin) is a German physicist, geneticist and professor emeritus of the University Freiburg.

Biography

Carsten Bresch studied physics and in 1947 he was one of the first students of Max Delbrück in postwar Berlin. Since 1949 he worked as an assistant at the reestablished Max-Planck-Institute for Physical Chemistry (today Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry), where he introduced bacteriophages as an object of study in the genetics. In 1958 Bresch went from Göttingen to the university of Cologne, where he prepared the foundation of a Genetics-Institute by order of Max Delbrück and the botany professor Joseph Straub. After the completion Bresch, Delbrück, Walther Harm, Peter Starlinger as well as the nucleic acid chemist Ulf Hennig moved into the Institute. 1965 Bresch leaves the institute, in order to lead the Biology Division of Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in Dallas, Texas. Since 1968 Bresch had held the chair for genetics at the University of Freiburg. At the same time he was the leader of the „Zentrallabor für Mutagenitätsprüfung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (Central Laboratory of Mutagenicity of the German Research Foundation). His main scientific work area was the genetics of bacteriophages. Bresch is the author of the book “Classical and Molecular Genetics”, which was considered as the international definitive book of genetics for many years. In addition to his research –and teaching activities he got involved with interdisciplinary subjects concerning theology and natural science.

Books

As author:

"Klassische und molekulare Genetik". Berlin: Springer, 1964 ISBN 3540058028 (3. erw. Ausgabe 1972)
"Zwischenstufe Leben. Evolution ohne Ziel?" München: Piper, 1977. ISBN 3492022707
"Des Teufels neue Kleider". München: TR-Verlagsunion, 1978 ISBN 3805809034
"Evolution". Stuttgart: Schattauer, 2010 (appears in June) ISBN 3794527577

As editor:

"AGEMUS - Rundbrief": Arbeitsgemeinschaften Evolution, Menschheitszukunft und Sinnfragen. Freiburg 1981 bis 1983
"Kann man Gott aus der Natur erkennen?" Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1990 ISBN 3451021250
"Gut und Böse in der Evolution". Naturwissenschaftler, Philosophen und Theologen im Disput.

Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 1995 ISBN 3804714234

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 == Biography ==
-Carsten Bresch studied physics and in 1947 he was one of the first students of [[Max Delbrück ]]in postwar Berlin. Since 1949 he worked as an assistant at the reestablished Max-Planck-Institute for Physical Chemistry (today Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry), where he introduced [[bacteriophages]] as an object of study  in the [[genetics]].
+Carsten Bresch studied physics and in 1947 he was one of the first students of [[Max Delbrück]] in postwar [[Berlin]]. Since 1949 he worked as an assistant at the reestablished Max-Planck-Institute for Physical Chemistry (today Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry), where he introduced [[bacteriophages]] as an object of study  in the [[genetics]].
 In 1958 Bresch went from Göttingen to the university of Cologne, where he prepared the foundation of a Genetics-Institute by order of Max Delbrück and the botany professor Joseph Straub. After the completion Bresch, Delbrück, Walther Harm, Peter Starlinger as well as the [[nucleic acid]] chemist Ulf Hennig moved into the Institute.
 Bresch leaves the institute, in order to lead the Biology Division of Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in Dallas, Texas. Since 1968 Bresch had held the chair for genetics at the University of Freiburg. At the same time he was the leader of  the „Zentrallabor für Mutagenitätsprüfung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (Central Laboratory of Mutagenicity of the German Research Foundation).