College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
Ann Bot. 2023 Nov 25;132(4):563-575. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcad028.
In January 1972, Klaus Winter submitted his first paper on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) whilst still an undergraduate student in Darmstadt. During the subsequent half-century, he passed his Staatsexamensarbeit, obtained his Dr. rer. nat. summa cum laude and Dr. rer. nat. habil., won a Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize and a Heisenberg Fellowship, and has occupied positions in Germany, Australia, the USA and Panama. Now a doyen in CAM circles, and a Senior Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), he has published over 300 articles, of which about 44 % are about CAM.
I document Winter's career, attempting to place his CAM-related scientific output and evolution in the context of factors that have influenced him as he and his science progressed from the 1970s to the 2020s.
1972 年 1 月，克劳斯·温特（Klaus Winter）还是达姆施塔特的一名本科生，便提交了第一篇关于景天酸代谢（CAM）的论文。在随后的半个世纪里，他通过了国家考试，获得了理学博士（summa cum laude）和理学博士（habilitation）学位，获得了海因茨·迈尔-莱布尼茨奖和海森堡奖学金，并在德国、澳大利亚、美国和巴拿马任职。现在，他是 CAM 领域的资深人士，也是史密森热带研究所（STRI）的高级职员科学家，发表了超过 300 篇文章，其中约 44%是关于 CAM 的。
本文记录了温特的职业生涯，试图将他与 CAM 相关的科研成果及其演变，置于影响他的因素的背景下，这些因素随着他和他的科学从 20 世纪 70 年代发展到 21 世纪而发生了变化。
