Ingo Potrykus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ingo Potrykus

German scientist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1933

Place of Birth: Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: biologist, university teacher, botanist, geneticist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ingo Potrykus is Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich from which he retired in 1999.
His research group applied gene technology to contribute to food security in developing countries.
Together with Peter Beyer, he is one of the co-inventors of golden rice.
In 2014 he was chairman of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board.