Karl Zimmer
Karl Zimmer | |
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| Born | 12 July 1911 |
| Died | 29 February 1988 (aged 76) West Germany (present day, Germany) |
| Nationality | German |
| Siglum | K. G. Zimmer |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Known for | Radiobiology Soviet program of nuclear weapons |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear chemistry |
| Institutions | Auergesellschaft AG Kaiser Wilhelm Society Plant No. 12 in Elektrostal Karlsruhe Research Center |
| Thesis | On the topics in Photochemistry (varies) (1939) |
Karl Günter Zimmer (12 July 1911 – 29 February 1988) was a German nuclear chemist who is best known for his work in understanding the ionizing radiation on Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and did fundamental work on radiation biology.: 209
In 1935, he published the major work, Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur, with Timofeev-Resovskij, and Max Delbrück; it was considered to be a major advance in understanding the nature of gene mutation and gene structure.
From 1945–1955, Zimmer was one of many German nuclear scientists in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons but left Russia to eventually settle in Germany.