Ernst Peter Fischer was born in Wuppertal in 1947 and studied Mathematics, Physics and Biology in Cologne. In 1977 he received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, and in 1987 gained his ‘Habilitation’ with a thesis in History of Science. In the following years he taught at the universities of Konstanz and Heidelberg. As a science journalist he has written inter alia for Die Welt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and FOCUS.
Website: http://www.epfischer.com/
(Updated: 2020)
