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Stetter was born in Munich and studied biology at the Technical University of Munich. Stetter wrote Stetter's doctoral dissertation on lactobacilli. From 1980 to 2002 Stetter was professor at, and head of, the department of microbiology and of the Archaea center of the University of Regensburg. The majority of Stetter's research has focused on ...
Nov 24, 2003 · A dogged hunter of life on the edge has won microbiology's highest honor. On 24 November, Karl Stetter, a expert on extremophiles at the University of Regensburg in Germany received the Leeuwenhoek Medal from the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences.
Dec 21, 2020 · Karl-Otto Stetter is recognized as a pioneer in the research, cultivation and description of hyperthermophilic archaea and bacteria. With the Nanoarchaeota he discovered a new domain, nine new orders, eighteen new genera and over fifty new species.
Karl Stetter is probably best known by his discovery of life at 100 and 113°C. He defined the term "hyperthermophile" to designate microbes growing optimally above 80°C (usual Pasteurization temperature).
- Regensburg
- Mikrobiologie und Immunologie
- Deutschland
- 1995
Oct 26, 2016 · Later, German microbiologist Karl Stetter showed that many surprising habitats, even oil fields, teemed with microbial life. In the 1980s, Forterre began to analyse the hyperthermophilic archaea...
- Sonja-Verena Albers
- sonja.albers@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
- 2016
History of discovery of the first hyperthermophiles. Received: 7 June 2006/ Accepted: 8 June 2006/Published online: 29 August 2006 Springer-Verlag 2006. Abstract. es, growing optimally at 80 C and above had been discovered in 1981. They represent the upper temperatu.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology, and the Institute for Genomic Biology have partnered to present this educational opportunity, made possible with the contributions of scientific experts from around the world, including Karl Stetter, Norm Pace ...
