 |
Klaus Ring | |
|---|---|
 Prof. Dr. Klaus Ring in front of the Presidential Gallery of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e. V. (Photo: Stefan Krutsch / Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfuzt am Main). | |
| Born | 25 February 1934 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Klaus Ring (born 25 February 1934) is a German microbiologist who served as president of the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1986 to 1994.
Ring studied microbiology and biochemistry at the universities of Göttingen, Frankfurt and Kiel and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1962. In 1968 he earned the habilitation and in 1971 he was appointed professor of microbiological chemistry at Frankfurt. Ring's scientific focus during this time was the structure and function of biological membranes. He was as visiting professor at the University of Hull (1974) and the University of Utrecht (1978–1979).
From 1980 to 1986 he was vice dean for preclinical studies and research, a board member of the university hospital and a member of the university senate. In 1986 he was elected president of the Goethe University. From 1988 to 1994 he was also vice president of the Rectors' Conference. From 1991 to 1994 Ring was a member of the presidium of the Comité de Liaison (the later European Rectors' Conference) in Brussels.
In 1994 Ring became managing director of Stiftung Lesen. From 2004 to 2014 he was honorary president of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Society. In this capacity he founded the Polytechnic Society Foundation in 2005. [1] [2] [3]
Goethe University is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt. The original name was Universität Frankfurt am Main. In 1932, the university's name was extended in honour of one of the most famous native sons of Frankfurt, the poet, philosopher and writer/dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The university currently has around 45,000 students, distributed across four major campuses within the city.
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott, PPRSE, FRCPSG, FMedSci, FRCPath is a Scottish microbiologist, and was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014.
Wilhelm Walcher was a German experimental physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; he worked on mass spectrometers for isotope separation. After the war, he was director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Marburg. He was a president of the German Physical Society and a vice president of the German Research Foundation. He helped found the Society for Heavy Ion Research and the German Electron Synchrotron DESY. He was also one of the 18 signatories of the Göttingen Manifest.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to "exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research". Since 1986, up to ten prizes are awarded annually to individuals or research groups working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad. It is considered the most important research award in Germany.
Klaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells.
Klaus Gustav Heinrich von Beyme was a German political scientist who was Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg.
The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics honors renowned researchers who have made influential contributions to the fields of finance and money and macroeconomics, and whose work has led to practical and policy-relevant results. It is awarded biannually, since 2005, by the Center for Financial Studies (CFS), in partnership with Goethe University Frankfurt, and is sponsored by Deutsche Bank Donation Fund. The award carries an endowment of €50,000, which is donated by the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
Alexandru Moisuc is a Romanian agricultural scientist, University Professor and Rector of the Banat University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USABTM) 2004–2012.
Susanne Schröter is a contemporary Social Anthropologist focussing primarily on Islam, Gender and Conflict Studies.
Boris Rajewsky was a Russian-born German biophysicist, who was one of the most influential researchers on the impact of radiation on living organisms in the 20th century. He served as Rector of the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1949 to 1951.
Ivan Đikić is a Croatian-German molecular biologist who is the Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Klaus Zehelein is a German dramaturge. He was president of the Munich Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. Zehelein is also president of the association of German theatres, Deutscher Bühnenverein. For fifteen years, from 1991 until 2006, Zehelein was artistic director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart. Critic Gerhard Rohde, summing up Zehelein's theatre work at the Stuttgart opera, says "Zehelein does not view opera as a culinary phenomenon. For him opera is an extremely complex matter, where all arts – as well as social, philosophical, historic, utopic and other aspects – unite. This complexity of opera merits being perceived, being seen, being experienced; thus all works that end up performed on stage, are rigorously analyzed beforehand. He who says this results in thinned-out, merely sophisticated opera performances, missed out substantially in the Zehelein-Era in Stuttgart."
Wolfgang Franz was a German mathematician who specialized in topology particularly in 3-manifolds, which he generalized to higher dimensions. He is known for the Reidemeister–Franz torsion. He also made important contributions to the theory of lens spaces.
Klaus Hortschansky was a German musicologist.
Astrid Beckmann is a German physicist, a professor of mathematics and mathematics education, and was a long-serving university president. Beckmann served as president of the Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd from 2010 to 2018. She also taught at the University of Ulm.
Klaus von See was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Günther Binding is a German art historian and retired professor of art history and urban conservation at the University of Cologne.
Enrico Schleiff is a German biologist and physicist, and the president of the Goethe University Frankfurt, serving since 1 January 2021.
Helmut Coing was a German legal historian. His work focused on the history of European private law, especially in the Middle Ages, legal history in Germany and the philosophy of law.
Alessandro Ferruccio Nova is an Italian art historian who specialises in the Renaissance. He is Director Emeritus of the Art History Institute of Florence (KHI) – the Max-Plank-Institute and Honorary Professor of Goethe University Frankfurt.
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
| Biographical dictionaries | |
