Hans Tuppy

Hans Tuppy ( born July 22, 1924 in Vienna) is an Austrian biochemist and was Federal Minister for Science and Research in the Federal Government Vranitzky II for the ÖVP.

Career

Hans Tuppy was involved during his chemistry studies in science policy areas and is co-founder of the Catholic school community and the "Free Austrian student body ."

The most important stages of his scientific and socio political career:

Prizes and awards

Hans Tuppy, were awarded in 1975 in his long career several honorary doctorates, the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1978, the Wilhelm Exner Medal and in 2002 the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian research community. He was also appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

As a young researcher Hans Tuppy worked in Cambridge with Frederick Sanger at the sequence elucidation of insulin. Frederick Sanger received in 1958 for this work the Nobel Prize, since Tuppy is considered a " fast Nobel Prize Winners".

After Cambridge Tuppy went to the Karlberg laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and returned only in 1951 returned to Vienna, where he became an assistant at the Institute of Chemistry II, University of Vienna. Tuppy never specialized in only one subject, but always tried to stay as broad as possible in his interests. Examples include work on nucleic acids, carbohydrates, or viruses. With Helmut Brunner leg, he worked a little on the enzymatic conversion of blood group substances of the AB0 system. With Peter Meindl, he succeeded in discovering a group of Neuraminsäurederivaten with antiviral efficacy.

Not only scientifically significant success Tuppy also engaged science policy. He worked on the creation of the Research Promotion Act with led during his presidency from the Fund for Scientific Research, the peer-review process and put some innovations during his political role as Federal Minister for science and research.

Tuppy is also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1965.