Karl Zimmer ( German: Karl Günter Zimmer ) ( July 11, 1911 - February 29, 1988 ) - a German biophysicist, a specialist in radiobiology, was one of the first to engage in research on the effect of ionizing radiation on DNA . In 1935, together with N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky and Max Delbrück , he published a number of fundamental works on the nature of genetic mutations and genetic structures and the effect of ionizing radiation on them.
| Karl Zimmer | |
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| Karl Günter Zimmer | |
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| Date of Birth | July 12, 1911 |
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| Date of death | February 29, 1988 (aged 76) |
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| A country | German Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Germany |
| Scientific field | biophysics |
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At the end of the war, the NKVD was taken to the USSR to work in the Soviet atomic project [2] [3] .
In 1955, he was allowed to return to Germany. Upon his return, he headed the radiobiology laboratory at the National Research Center in Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116994010 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Riehl and Seitz, 1996, 71-72.
- ↑ Oleynikov, 2000, 7.
Literature
- Oleynikov, Pavel V. German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project, The Nonproliferation Review Volume 7, Number 2, 1 - 30 (2000). The author has been a group leader at the Institute of Technical Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70).
- Riehl, Nikolaus and Frederick Seitz Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) ISBN 0-8412-3310-1 .