Ute Deichmann

Ute Deichmann was born in 1951 in Germany

Ute Deichmann was born in Germany in 1951. From 1970 to 1975 she studied biology at the University of Bochum, completing the equivalent of a master's degree. She is also an amateur cellist.

She earned her Ph.D. in 1991 at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cologne, under Benno Müller-Hill. Her thesis dealt with biologists under Hitler and the expulsion of Jewish scientists, and it was published as a book. In 2000 she received her habilitation there with a study of chemists and biochemists under National Socialism.

From 2003 to 2007 she was a research professor at the Leo Baeck Institute in London, where she co-led a project on Jews in German-speaking academia. In 2007 she became founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva. Since 2011 she has led it as an adjunct full professor and has also been an associate professor at the University of Cologne.

Her research traces concepts such as biological specificity, genomic regulation and epigenetics over time. She also examines scientific claims later rejected, such as biocolloidy and extended epigenetics. From 1991 to 2003 she studied biology and chemistry in Nazi Germany and the forced emigration of Jewish scientists.