Peter Hausen

Hausen received his Ph.D. in 1961, supervised by Werner Scäfer at what was then the Max Planck Institute for Virology. After a brief stay as a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, he returned to Germany to join the Max Planck Institute for Biology. He then moved back to MPI for Virology (which later changed its name and research focus to Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and became the Director of the Department of Cell Biology in 1973. He was also active in the establishment of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. ==Research==

Hausen's research focused on developmental biology. He is especially well recognized for studies of the development of the model organism Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog). With Metta Riebesell, he coauthored a widely used and well-reviewed reference work on the topic, The early development of Xenopus laevis. An atlas of the histology. ==References==