GUNTHER S. STENT

Gunther S. Stent (b. 1924 in Berlin, Germany) is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley. He arrived in Chicago in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1948. He then studied as a postdoctoral research fellow of the U.S. National Research Council at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Copenhagen, and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He participated in the early development of molecular biology and has written several influential books…