Tübingen. May 21st 2010. Detlef Weigel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, is one of eight foreign members who have been elected to the Royal Society of London this year. The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. Among its Foreign Members is a small circle of German scientists, which apart from several Nobel laureates such as Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard includes only the former president of the Max Planck Society, Hubert Markl. As a German-American, Detlef Weigel has been previously elected both to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the US National Academy of Sciences. In addition to his work on the growth and flowering of plants, he has become widely known for his studies of plant evolution. He is particularly interested in the question how plants adapt over short time scales to ever changing environmental conditions. For several years, he has been the most widely cited developmental and plant biologist in German speaking countries.  


More Information:
New Members of the Royal Society of London
  


Contact:
Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel
Phone: +49 7071 601-1410
E-mail: detlef.weigel[at]tuebingen.mpg.de  

Dr. Susanne Diederich (Presse- & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit)
Phone: +49 7071 601-333
E-mail: presse[at]tuebingen.mpp.de