Background
Potrykus was born on December 5, 1933 in Hirschberg/Schlesien, Germany. He studied biology at the University of Cologne and earned his doctorate with a thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. After several years at the Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Hohenheim, he became research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Genetics. In 1976 he transferred to Basel, Switzerland to establish the area of plant genetic engineering at the Friedrich Miescher Institute.
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