Karl August Folkers (1906–1997)

The Breakthroughs of Karl Folkers in Biochemistry and Human Nutrition

Professor Karl August Folkers (Figure 1), a biochemist from the United States, was the head of one of the two research groups, one in England and one in the United States. In 1948, the two groups independently and simultaneously reported the isolation of vitamin B12 [1,2]. Most of Folkers’ work was carried out while working at the Merck Company (later Merck Sharp & Dohme) from 1934 to 1963. His...

Karl Sigmund.

Program Thursday, October 29 10:00 – 10:20 Opening addresses by Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann and by Dean Prof. Dr. Harald Rindler 10:20 – 11:15 Peter Schuster: “Modeling cooperation – From molecules to man” 11:15 – 12:10 Martin Nowak: “Natural cooperation” 12:10 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 14:55 Sebastian Schreiber: "Fitness covariances and coexistence of interacting, structured populations" 1...

Marx, Karl

Marx was drawn towards politics by Romantic literature and his earliest writings embody a conception of reality as subject to turbulent change and of human beings as realizing themselves in the struggle for freedom. His identification with these elements in HEGEL's thought (and his contempt for what he regarded as HEGEL's apologetic attitude towards the Prussian state) brought Marx to associate...

Karl R . Popper

I propose to begin my paper on the logic of the social sciences with two theses which formulate the opposition between our knowledge and our ignorance. First thesis: We know a great deal. And we know not only many details of doubtful intellectual interest but also things which are of considerable practical significance and, what is even more important, which provide us with deep theoretical ins...

Karl Popper. Objective Knowledge