Dr. Pfennig was born in Germany in 1925 and is still living. He was
educated at Gottingen, and his primary scientific interests are photographic
bacteria, ecology of bacteria, and homocontinuous culture.
He is well known for creating a widely used media for the culture of
phototrophic sulfur bacteria ( e.g. purple and green sulfer bacteria). From
1967 through 1971 he was a professor at the Institute for
Microbiology at the University of Gottingen. From 1971 through the current
time he has been head of the Microbiology Institute, Gesellschaft fur
Strahlen-und UmWeltforschung mbH. He is a member of multiple
scientific societies, including Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Hygiene und
Mikrobiologie, the Society for General Microbiology, the American Society
for Microbiology, and is also an Emeritus member of Bergey's Manual Trust.
Norbert Pfenning carries on the Delft tradition, and he still passes his
methods on through workshops he gives such as one he taught in Switzerland
November of 1996.
His mailing address is as follows:
Institute for Microbiology
Dr. Norbert Pfennig
Gesellschaft fur Strahlen-und Umweltforschung mbH
Grisebachs trasse 8
D-34 Gottingen-Weende, Germany FR
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