Gunther Stent
Gunther Stent | |
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| Born | Günter Siegmund Stensch March 28, 1924 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | June 12, 2008 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Known for | Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular biology |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley |
Gunther Siegmund Stent (March 28, 1924 – June 12, 2008) was a German-American molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. An early bacteriophage researcher associated with the phage group that formed around Max Delbrück at the California Institute of Technology, he was known for his influential textbook Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses (1963), his studies on the metabolism of bacteria and the neurobiology of leeches, and his writings on the history and philosophy of science.
Born in Berlin, Stent emigrated to the United States in 1940 to escape Nazi Germany. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.