Barbara Leonare Hohn ForMemRS is an Austrian molecular biologist, and
was a researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research is part of the Novartis Research Foundation and is a world-class center for basic research in life sciences based in Basel, Switzerland.-Scientific activities:...

 from 1976 to 2004. In 2010, she won the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize.

Life

She studied chemistry at University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

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She earned a PhD in Biochemistry,from University of Tübingen in 1967.
She was a Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1967, at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 from 1968 to 1970, and at University of Basel

University of Basel

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from 1971 to 1977.

She taught at University of Basel, becoming Professor in 1996.

External links

• http://www.bio.purdue.edu/people/faculty/gelvin/gelvinweb/HOHNcvtlc.pdf