Peter Becker is a German Molecular biologist. He studied biology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg till 1984. And finished his Ph.D at the German Cancer Research Center and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in 1987. After being employed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory from 1991 till 1999 he became head of the Adolf Butenandt Institute for molecular biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
In 2005, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.
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