Kärin Nickelsen
Kärin Nickelsen is a German historian of science whose works have included books on eighteenth-century botanical illustration, photosynthesis, and life-support systems for human spaceflight. She is a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Education and career
Nickelsen earned a diploma at the University of Göttingen in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She became an assistant professor at the University of Bern, was promoted to associate professor in 2006, and completed a habilitation there in 2010. In 2011 she took her present position as professor for the History of Science at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Books
Nickelsen is the author of:- Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature: The Construction of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Illustrations
- The Maximum Quantum Yield Controversy: Otto Warburg and the "Midwest-Gang"
- Explaining Photosynthesis: Models of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840–1960
- ''Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age''