# Barbara Hohn

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{{short description|Austrian molecular biologist}}

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'''Barbara Hohn''' <small>[ForMemRS](/source/Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society)</small> (born 15 September 1939)<ref name="Library of Congress">{{cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85064680.html|title=Hohn, B. (Barbara), 1939-|work=Library of Congress Name Authority File|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=2 November 2013}}</ref> is an Austrian [molecular biologist](/source/molecular_biologist), particularly known for her research into the ''[Agrobacterium tumefaciens](/source/Agrobacterium_tumefaciens)''.

==Early life==
She was born Barbara Freiinger, in [Klagenfurt](/source/Klagenfurt), Austria. From 1957 to 1962, she studied chemistry at the [University of Vienna](/source/University_of_Vienna) and then worked at the [Max Planck Institute](/source/Max_Planck_Institute) for Virus Research at the [University of Tübingen](/source/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen), where she received her doctorate in 1967.<ref name="FMI_emeriti">{{Cite web |title=Barbara Hohn|url=http://www.fmi.ch/about/people/emeriti/emeriti.html?group=14 |work=FMI|date=2013 |access-date=19 October 2013}}</ref> Her PhD thesis supervisor was Professor Friedrich Freksa.<ref name=AcademiaNet />

==Career==
As a postdoc, she did research at the Universities of Yale and Stanford, and in 1971 at the Biozentrum, [University of Basel](/source/University_of_Basel). In 1978, she became a group leader at the [Friedrich Miescher Institute](/source/Friedrich_Miescher_Institute). From 1989, Hohn was associate professor of molecular genetics and in 1996 adjunct professor at the [University of Basel](/source/University_of_Basel). She retired in 2004. Her research topics included the ''[Agrobacterium tumefaciens](/source/Agrobacterium_tumefaciens)''.<ref name="FMI_emeriti" />

Hohn is a member of the [Austrian Academy of Sciences](/source/Austrian_Academy_of_Sciences) (Math and Science class) and the [Royal Society](/source/Royal_Society).

==Honours and awards==
Hohn has been awarded a [European Molecular Biology Organisation](/source/European_Molecular_Biology_Organisation) (EMBO) Lectureship in 1977, and the Science Prize from the City of Basel in 1992.<ref name=AcademiaNet>{{cite web|url=http://www.academia-net.org/alias/Profil/Dr-Barbara-Hohn/1133788|title=Dr. Barbara Hohn|publisher=AcademiaNet|access-date=2 November 2013}}</ref> In 2010, she was awarded the Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Preis of the Östreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Association).<ref name="LW_prize">{{Cite web |title=Barbara Hohn honored with Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Preis|url=http://www.fmi.ch/news/releases/articles/hohn.101007.html |work=FMI|date=7 October 2010 |access-date=20 October 2013}}</ref>

==Personal life==
She is married to fellow molecular biologist Thomas Hohn. They have two sons.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

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Category:1939 births
Category:Living people
Category:Austrian molecular biologists
Category:Foreign members of the Royal Society
Category:University of Vienna alumni
Category:Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Category:Foreign fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Category:Women molecular biologists
Category:Scientists from Klagenfurt

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