Background
Kandler, Otto was born on October 23, 1920 in Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Son of Karl and Theresia (Katzdobler) Kandler.
Kandler, Otto was born on October 23, 1920 in Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Son of Karl and Theresia (Katzdobler) Kandler.
Doctor rerum naturalium, University Munich, 1949. Honorary Doctor, University Ghent, Belgium, 1981. Honorary Doctor, Technology University Munich, 1985.
With Carl Woese Kandler proposed the change from the preceding view of living organisms as a Two-empire system of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes to the Three-domain system of the domains Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea. While bacteria and archaea appear to be similar in form and structure, Woese, Kandler and Wheelis demonstrated that they were genetically very dissimilar. They demonstrated this through analysis of Ribosomal Ribonucleic acid. Kandler taught and conducted research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1968 to 1986.
The methanogen Methanopyrus kandleri (Kurr, 1991) was named in honor of Kandler.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities]
Kandler became an member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1983.
Married Gertraud Schafer Kandler, August 1, 1953. Children: Maya, Barbara, Vera.