Herbert Zimmermann (neuroscientist)

Herbert Zimmermann was born in Chiesch (now Chyše, Czech Republic). He studied chemistry and biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1964–69) and obtained his PhD at the University of Regensburg in 1971. From 1972-73 he continued as postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. From 1973-79 he was scientist and senior scientist at the Department of Neurochemistry of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany). From 1980–83 he held the position of Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Oldenburg (Germany). In 1983 he was appointed chair and section leader of Neurochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). In 1987 he was visiting professor at the Institute of Brain Research of the Medical Faculty of the Tokyo University (Tokyo Daigaku). From 1991 to 1995 he was elected president of the German Neuroscience Society. 2008 he was elected president of the German Purine Club. After his retirement (2010) he continued as emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology of the Goethe University. Since 2009 he is president of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.

Herbert Zimmermann (born 10 January 1944) is a German neuroscientist who pioneered the studies on the biochemical, structural and functional heterogeneity of cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the electric organ of the electric ray Torpedo, and the functional and biochemical characterization of enzymes hydrolyzing extracellular nucleotides.