Jens Reich

Jens Reich
Born
Jens Georg Reich

(1939-03-26) 26 March 1939
NationalityGerman (ex-GDR)
EducationHumboldt University of Berlin
Known forThe kinetic behaviour of metabolic pathways, foundation of the New Forum
ChildrenStephanie Reich
AwardsCarl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsCentral Institute for Molecular Biology, Berlin-Buch; German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg; Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
Thesis 1. Arterial Vascular Sounds; 2. Time and Motion in the Metabolism of Living Cells

Jens Georg Reich (born 26 March 1939 in Göttingen, Province of Hanover) is a German scientist and a member of the German Ethics Council. He became famous as a civil rights campaigner in the last decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)