Opening Address
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is the third time that I have the honour to welcome the participants
of the International Symposium on Ouantitative Biology of Metabolism here on
Helgoland. I cordially welcome you to this big rock of red sandstone in the
North Sea, and to the Marine Station of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland!
We are very glad that this symposium series has proved a valuable platform
for the exchange of information and ideas concerning quantitative aspects
of metabolism, and that many leading scholars representing a wide variety
of biological and medical disciplines have come again in order to present
and to discuss new scientific results. This third symposium has attracted
the largest number of participants from English-speaking countries yet - an
indication, it seems, of the growing international reputation of this conference.
Please let me say a few words about the history of this symposium
series. The idea to initiate biennial international and interdisciplinary
symposia devoted to the fast developing field of quantitative biology was
put forward in 1962 by Drs A. LOCKER (bsterreichische Studiengesellschaft
fur Atomenergie GmbH, Wicn) and F. KRUGER (Biologische Anstalt
Helgoland, Zentrale, Hamburg). I did not hesitate to support their idea
and to offer the assistance of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland as sponsoring institution. Thus the first two symposia of this series were organized
by LOCKER, KRUGER und myself, and held in September 1963 and 1965,
respectively, on Helgoland. All papers and discussions have been published
in volumes 9 and 14 of the "Helgolander wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen" .
From the beginning, I intended to devote myself to getting the symposium off the ground. Now that it is flying, I shall restrict myself to
making available, as before, the assistance of our institution. As some of
you may know, I am a marine biologist and experimental ecologist; as such
I should no longer exert influence on an important field which progresses
rapidly beyond my professional horizon. It is also felt that the proceedings
should be published, from now on, in a special publication in order to
do justice to their importance, not only to marine biologists but also to
physiologists, biochemists, radiation biologists, geneticists, biomathe-
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is the third time that I have the honour to welcome the participants
of the International Symposium on Ouantitative Biology of Metabolism here on
Helgoland. I cordially welcome you to this big rock of red sandstone in the
North Sea, and to the Marine Station of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland!
We are very glad that this symposium series has proved a valuable platform
for the exchange of information and ideas concerning quantitative aspects
of metabolism, and that many leading scholars representing a wide variety
of biological and medical disciplines have come again in order to present
and to discuss new scientific results. This third symposium has attracted
the largest number of participants from English-speaking countries yet - an
indication, it seems, of the growing international reputation of this conference.
Please let me say a few words about the history of this symposium
series. The idea to initiate biennial international and interdisciplinary
symposia devoted to the fast developing field of quantitative biology was
put forward in 1962 by Drs A. LOCKER (bsterreichische Studiengesellschaft
fur Atomenergie GmbH, Wicn) and F. KRUGER (Biologische Anstalt
Helgoland, Zentrale, Hamburg). I did not hesitate to support their idea
and to offer the assistance of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland as sponsoring institution. Thus the first two symposia of this series were organized
by LOCKER, KRUGER und myself, and held in September 1963 and 1965,
respectively, on Helgoland. All papers and discussions have been published
in volumes 9 and 14 of the "Helgolander wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen" .
From the beginning, I intended to devote myself to getting the symposium off the ground. Now that it is flying, I shall restrict myself to
making available, as before, the assistance of our institution. As some of
you may know, I am a marine biologist and experimental ecologist; as such
I should no longer exert influence on an important field which progresses
rapidly beyond my professional horizon. It is also felt that the proceedings
should be published, from now on, in a special publication in order to
do justice to their importance, not only to marine biologists but also to
physiologists, biochemists, radiation biologists, geneticists, biomathe-