Norbert Pfennig (born 8 July 1925 in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
— died 11 February 2008 in
Ãœberlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
) was a German
microbiologist
A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...
.
Norbert Pfennig described with
Bernhard Schink ''
Pelobacter acidigallici'', a bacterial species in the genus ''
Pelobacter''. ''P. acidigallici'' is able to degrade
trihydroxybenzenes The trihydroxybenzenes (or benzenetriols) are organic compounds with the formula C6H3(OH)3. Also classified as polyphenols, they feature three hydroxyl groups substituted onto a benzene ring. They are white solids with modest solubility in water.
...
.
Fermentation of trihydroxybenzenes by Pelobacter acidigallici gen. nov. sp. nov., a new strictly anaerobic, non-sporeforming bacterium. Bernhard Schink and Norbert Pfennig, Archives of Microbiology, Volume 133, Number 3 / december 1982, Pages 195-201, DOI 10.1007/BF00415000
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References
German microbiologists
1925 births
2008 deaths
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