Karl Zimmer

Karl Günther room ( born July 12, 1911 in Breslau, † February 29, 1988 in Karlsruhe ) was a German physicist and inventor.

Life

His parents were Arthur Ministerialamtmann the room and his wife Elsa, born Geipel. In his childhood, the family moved to Berlin, and he visited the Helmholtz Real Gymnasium in Berlin -Schöneberg. Room studied from May 1929 to May 1933 physics, chemistry and philosophy at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. After his studies he was in the Genetic Department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch 1934-1945 worked. He worked on ray-induced genetic problems. From 1945 to 1955 he had to cooperate in the Soviet nuclear program in Russia. In later years, he headed the Institute on Nuclear Research Center of Karlsruhe, 1957-1979 Associate Professor of Radiation Biology at the University of Heidelberg. Room was married in 1940 to Elisabeth Charlotte Cron ( 1917-2003 ). He died of a heart attack in Karlsruhe.

His final resting place, he found after a reburial in 1990 in his parents' grave in the West Stahnsdorf.

Works (selection)

• June 1935: On the nature of gene mutation and gene structure, ( jointly with the geneticist Nikolai Vladimirovich Timoféeff -Ressovsky ( 1900-1981 ) and the theoretical physicist Max Delbrück )
• 1937: Monograph of the essence, the production and the biological effects of radiation
• 1947: The Hits principle in biology ( jointly with Timoféeff -Ressovsky )