Gottfried Schatz

Gottfried Schatz (born 18 August 1936 in , 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 [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): " [http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/emeritus/schatz/pdf/Schatz_BBRC_1964.pdf "Deoxyribonucleic Acid Associated with Yeast Mitochondria"] " (PDF) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 15, 127 - 132.] .

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 [http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/ 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" [Gottfried Schatz: "Interplanetary travels" - A scientific autobiography (Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry, edited by G. Semenza and R. Jaenicke: Personal Recollections VI - Comprhensive Biochemistry Vol.41, Chapter 9, p. 449-530 - Elsevier Science B.V., 2000)] was published in 2000.

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 Gold Medal of
* 1993 Schleiden Medal, Deutsche Akademie Leopoldina
* 1993 Foreign Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences
* 1993 Prix Marcel Benoist
* 1994 Member,
* 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 , 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

References

Books for a general audience

* 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, 2008 - ISBN 978-3038234531; "Audio Version on CD:" Kein & Aber, 2008 - ISBN 978-3036912462

External links

* [http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/emeritus/schatz/pub_schatz.pdf Gottfried Schatz: List of professional publications] (pdf)
* [http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/emeritus/schatz/schatz_cv.html Gottfried Schatz: Academic education and professional experience / Scientific mandates - Biozentrum Basel]
* [http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/emeritus/schatz/index_d.html Gottfried Schatz: Homepage / Extended CV - Biozentrum Basel]

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