Background
Vester was born in Saarbrücken, and studied chemistry at the universities of Mainz, Paris and Hamburg.
biochemist fiction writer university professor
Vester was born in Saarbrücken, and studied chemistry at the universities of Mainz, Paris and Hamburg.
University of Paris; University of Mainz.
From 1955 to 1957 he was postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and Cambridge. From 1957 to 1966 he worked at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, and from 1969 he worked in Munich, first at the Max Planck Institute. In 1970 he founded the private Munich-based Frederic Vester Studiengruppe für Biologie und Umwelt GmbH ("Frederic Vester Study Group for Biology and Environment, Limited), renamed Frederic Vester GmbH ("Frederic Vester, Limited") after his death.
From 1982 to 1989 he was a professor at the Bundeswehr University Munich, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Professor for Applied Economics at the Hochschule Saint Gallen, Switzerland.
Vester"s ideas influenced the formation of the environmental movement and the Green Party in Germany. He died in Munich.
He was a member of the Club of Rome.