Max Delbrück (chemist)

Max Delbrück ( born June 16, 1850 in Bergen auf Rügen, † May 4, 1919 in Berlin) was a German agricultural chemist.

Life

Delbrück came from a highly respected in Prussia Delbrück family of scholars and civil servants and was a younger brother of the historian Hans Delbrück. The biophysicist and Nobel laureate Max Delbrück was his nephew.

Delbrück studied chemistry in Berlin and Greifswald. He was a member of the Berlin RSC Corps Cimbria.

In Berlin, he took on the establishment and management of the Laboratory of distillery character, from the 1882 Research and Training Institute for Brewing (VLB ) emerged. There he directed from 1884 until his death, the Institute for the fermentation industry. He built his own experimental and educational facilities of the VLB, which were operated until 1981. In 1885 he founded the Mechanical engineering department of VLB and 1888 the course of study to master brewer. In 1899 he became full professor at the College of Agriculture.

In 1892 he was elected a member of the Learned Society Leopoldina.

Since 1877, Delbrück was a member of the German Patent Office. He was with the magazine Max Maercker for alcohol industry, out with Friedrich Hayduck the daily newspaper for brewery with the scientific supplement weekly for brewery.

Delbruck's scientific papers concern the physiology of yeast and their applications to which his research exerted a great influence. His pioneering Institute of Biotechnology proven particularly through close collaboration between practice and science.

1918 awarded him the TH Munich the Dr.-Ing. E. H. His grave is in the cemetery Wilmersdorf in Berlin.