Karl Gunter Zimmer Papers
This collection houses the collected papers of German physicist Karl Günter Zimmer. These papers consist primarily of reprints of 121 articles and chapters written by K.G. Zimmer and various co-authors in German, Russian, French, or English. These documents were originally housed in eight binders and indexes to the contents of these binders can be found in folders 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. Folders 12 thorough 16 contain unbound pages from three books, and folder 17 contains a single bound book.
Dates
- 1933-1962
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Conditions Governing Use
The UT Libraries claims only physical ownership of most material in the collections. Persons wishing to broadcast or publish this material must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants on www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (1 record box)
Abstract
This collection houses the collected papers of German physicist Karl Günter Zimmer. These papers consist primarily of reprints of 121 articles and chapters written by K.G. Zimmer and various co-authors in German, Russian, French, or English. These documents were originally housed in eight binders and indexes to the contents of these binders can be found in folders 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. Folders 12 thorough 16 contain unbound pages from three books, and folder 17 contains a single bound book.
Biographical/Historical Note
Karl Günter Zimmer was born in Germany on July 12, 1911. After obtaining his Ph.D degree in 1934, he began working as an advisor in radiotheraputic physics in a radiological hospital and as an employee of the Auer Society in order to support himself financially. He completed most of his theoretical work, however, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut fuer Hirnforschung (brain research) in Berlin. Comparatively early in his career, he, N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and M. Delbrueck published Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstrucktur (also known as the Green Pamphletor the Three-men-paper), which is now considered a major advance in the understanding of gene structure. Zimmer continued to work in Germany throughout World War II. After the war ended, he and several other scientists (including Timofeeff-Ressovsky and Alexander Catsch), were taken prisoner by the Russian Army and deported to the U.S.S.R., where they remained for the next ten years. After his release in 1955, Zimmer worked for the Swedish Forest Research Institute at Stockholm and for the German Nuclear Research Center at Karlsruhe, both of which benefited from his insights and from his ability to exploit modest means to their fullest that he had learned in the U.S.S.R. Karl Zimmer died in Germany on February 29, 1988.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single box.
Acquisition Note
Dr. Alexander Hollaender arranged for these papers to be deposited in Special Collections.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository