Grote, Mathias (Author)
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 21, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 171-185
Publication date: 2013
Language: German
Laboratory manuals, notebooks and instrumentation from Otto Warburg's Institute of Cell Physiology have been discovered at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. Following Warburg's death in 1970 one of his technicians was transferred from Berlin-Dahlem to the newly founded biochemical institute at Martinsried near Munich, and brought with him these resources, which epitomize the singular position of Warburg's work style and institute in the 1950s and 1960s. Since the technician's skills and apparently outmoded instrumentation like the Warburg apparatus were still used in the context of 1970s membrane biochemistry, this trove also documents an unexpected continuity of research within the life sciences. Moreover, the service of Warburg's technician, which spans more than four decades, as well as the meticulous documentation of preparations and experiments, serve as a case in point for the importance of routine and rather mundane techniques in the post-war molecular life sciences.
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