Jens Reich
He became famous as a civil rights campaigner in the last decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Jens Reich grew up in Halberstadt.He studied medicine and molecular biology at East Berlin's Humboldt University and began his professional career as a junior doctor in his hometown.In 1964, Jens Reich obtained his doctorate with the dissertation Arterial Vascular Sounds and from 1968 onwards worked at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Buch.Soon after his appointment to head of department at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Jens Reich lost this post.Despite his political difficulties Reich continued with his scientific research during the 1970s and 1980s, with several notable papers, such as a strategy for parameter estimation in enzymology[3] and a study of inorganic pyrophosphatase in collaboration with Samuel Rapoport, the most influential figure in biochemistry in the GDR at that time.