Peter Fromherz

Year of birth, place
1942, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Biography

Peter Fromherz was born in 1942 in Ludwigshafen, and on completing his schooling in Switzerland studied at the TH Karlsruhe where he graduated in 1966 with a degree in chemistry. In 1969 he received a doctorate from Hans Kuhn in Marburg after which he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen from 1970 to 1981. After habilitating in 1978 he held the chair of experimental physics at Ulm University. Since 1994, Fromherz has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Membrane- and Neurophysics dept.) and Honorary Professor in the faculty for Physics at the TU Munich. Since 1992 Fromherz has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and in 1998, received the Julius Springer prize for Applied Physics.

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