Roger Stanier
Roger Yate Stanier ( born October 22, 1916 in Victoria, British Columbia, † January 29, 1982 in Bullion, France) was a Canadian microbiologist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1971 worked at the Pasteur Institute. His book, The Microbial World was for several decades as a standard work of the tray.
Life and work
Stanier acquired in 1936 from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor's degree in bacteriology. In 1938, he attended a summer course at Cornelis Bernardus van Niel at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, and then began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1939 with Master's degree in bacteriology. His Ph.D. acquired Stanier 1942 again at van Niel, Pacific Grove. Subsequently, he was employed as a production manager for Merck & Co., Inc. in the war-important mass production of penicillin in Canada before he went as a Guggenheim Fellow for a year at Cambridge University in England.
1947 Stanier faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained for 24 years and substantial contributions to microbiology made , particularly with respect to the taxonomy, metabolism, physiology and structure of the bacteria and the position of prokaryotes within the biological domain. In 1956 he married Germaine Cohen- Bazire ( 1920-2001 ), who was also a microbiologist. The couple had a daughter. Roger Staniers 1957 for the first time published a standard work The Microbial World was reprinted five times. 1960/1961 he spent a sabbatical in to Jacques Monod in Paris.
1971 could be Stanier in Berkeley emeritus early and moved to the Institute Pasteur in Paris, where he spent the last ten years of his life working. Pays particular attention to the Stanier cyanobacteria ( blue-green algae ), which he first described in 1974.
Awards (selection)
2001 Stanier the Section Biological Implications of Pathogenicity ( BIOP ) was refounded as Stanier Institute / Institut Stanier honor. The Institute publishes the journal Journal of Hygiene Science.