Boris Rajewsky
Boris Rajewsky ( born July 17, 1893 in Tschyhyryn, Ukraine, † 22 November 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a noted German biophysicist and radiation researchers of Ukrainian origin.
Life
Boris Rajewsky, son of a Russian noble family, studied physics from 1912 to 1917 at the University of Kiev, where he was in 1918, " The dispersion of electrical waves in liquid dielectrics " He earned his doctorate work. After a period as an assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Kiev and short working as a physics teacher in Hungary in 1922, he moved to Germany about. He received in 1927 the German citizenship. He was an assistant of Friedrich Dessauer at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1929, " Dr. phil. " doctorate nat., and in the same year his teaching authority has been transferred as a private.
In 1934 he started with the consent of the Dessauer led by the " Institute of Physical foundations of medicine ". Dessauer was stripped of office by the Nazis because of his socio-political commitment and arrested; therefore Dessauer was forced to emigrate. Shortly thereafter, Rajewsky was appointed full professor. 1937 Rajewsky Institute was reclassified as a " Kaiser- Wilhelm- Institute of Biophysics ", which was incorporated now spun off from the University of Frankfurt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1937 Rajewsky the NSDAP, 1939, the NSD covenant. He then worked with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, together with ray-induced genetic experiments. In 1943 he was Vice-Rector of the University of Frankfurt.
After the end of the Second World War he was interned, but worked a short time later as acting director of the university - X Institute. In 1946, he was Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society and is chairman of the medical-biological section. From 1949 to 1951 he was rector, then to 1954, Vice-Rector of the University of Frankfurt.
In 1955 he became an adviser to the German Atomic Commission, 1956 Chairman of the Special Committee radioactivity. In 1969 he held a symposium in which it was thought of experiments exploring the effects of cosmic radiation on living organisms. In 1961, he stood in the Yearbook of the Max Planck Society as " opponents and victims of National Socialism" dar. He died in 1974 in Frankfurt colorectal cancer.
Boris Rajewsky had two sons, Manfred and Klaus, and the daughter Xenia. The biotechnologist Manfred Rajewsky Fedor was a professor at the University of Essen; the immunologist Klaus Rajewsky (formerly Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne) teaches at Harvard University; His grandson is the bioinformatician Nikolaus Rajewsky ( successor to Jens Reich at Berlin MDC). The daughter Xenia is the author and translator of several books.
Research
Awards
- Honorary doctorates from the universities of Berlin, Giessen, Hannover, Innsbruck, Naples and Turin
- Member of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt ( 1955 to 1970 its president )
- Faculty Medal of the Faculty of Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
- Golden Medal of the University of Rome
- 1943 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1951 Goethe Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main
- 1953 Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1958 Goethe Medal of the State of Hessen
- 1959 Academia Medica in Rome
- 1962 Sigillum Magnum of the University of Bologna
- 1963 Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1970 Lenin Gold Medal