Ute Deichmann

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Ute Deichmann is an historian of modern life sciences. [1] She is adjunct full professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, [2] where she was the founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences in 2007 and continues to be the director. [3] She has also been an associate professor at the University of Cologne, Germany since 2011.

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Career

Ute Deichmann received her Ph.D. in 1991 at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cologne with the thesis Biologists under Hitler: The Expulsion of Jewish Scientists and the Development of Biological Research in Germany. [4] She received her habilitation in 2000 at the same university with a thesis on chemists and biochemists in the era of National Socialism, published in 2001. [5] She later became head of a working group on the history of modern biology and chemistry in the same department at the University of Cologne. [6] From 2003 to 2007, she was a research professor at the Leo-Baeck-Institute in London where, together with Ulrich Charpa, she was the head of the project "Jews in German-Speaking Academia, 19th and 20th centuries". [7] In 2007, Deichmann became founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva. Since 2011, she has headed the center as an adjunct full professor. [8]

Research

Her research focuses on the history and philosophy of modern life sciences with an emphasis on: [9]

From 1991-2003 she conducted major research on biology and chemistry in Nazi Germany and the forced emigration of Jewish scientists and developed a unique methodology for historical-political-scientific analysis. [8]

Awards

She is the recipient of the Ladislaus Laszt Award of Ben-Gurion University (1995) for her book Biologists under Hitler and the recipient of the Gmelin Beilstein Medal of the Society of German Chemical Society (2005) for her book Flee, Collaborate, Forget. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for her article “‘Molecular’ versus ‘Colloidal’: Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900-1940”. [12] [13]

Publications

Books

Authored books

  • Biologists under Hitler, Cambridge (Mass.), London: Harvard University Press, 1996 [14]
  • Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemiker und Biochemiker im Nationalsozialismus, (Flee, Collaborate, Forget: Chemistry and Biochemistry under National Socialism), Weinheim: Wiley/VCH, 2001 [15]

Edited books

  • U. Charpa, U. Deichmann, 2007. Jews and Sciences in German Contexts. Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck.
  • S. Wenkel, U. Deichmann, 2007. Max Delbrück and Cologne. An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology, Singapore: World Scientific Publications, Inc.

Articles

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References

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  2. ↑ "Ute Deichmann" . Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Research: Ute Deichmann". LEO BAECK INSTITUTE LONDON. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Biologists under Hitler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1996. ISBN   0-674-07404-1.
  5. ↑ Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Chemiker und Biochemiker im Nationalsozialismus. NY, NY: Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. 2001.
  6. ↑ Deichmann, Ute. "Working group History and Philosophy of Modern Informational and Structural Biosciences" (PDF). Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Research: Ute Deichmann". Leo Baeck Institute London. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Ute Deichmann". Jacques Loeb Centre. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Ute Deichmann". Research Gate. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  10. ↑ Deichmann, Ute (2007). "Molecular" versus "Colloidal": Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900–1940". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 32: 105–118.
  11. ↑ Deichmann, Ute (2016). "Epigenetics: The origin and evolution of a fashionable topic". Developmental Biology. 416 (1): 249–254. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.06.005 . PMID   27291929.
  12. ↑ "Deichmann, Professor Ute". Euro Jewish Studies. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Guest lecture: Prof. Ute Deichmann on "The Beginnings of Israeli-German Collaboration in the Sciences; Motives, Scientific Benefits and Hidden Agendas"". The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  14. ↑ Diechmann, Ute (1996). Biologists Under Hitler. Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674074040 . Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  15. ↑ "Ute Deichmann". BGU Academia. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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