Rudolph Clausius
It was Rudolf Clausius, a professor at the University of Bonn, who in the mid-1800s coined the term entropy, formulated the second law of thermodynamics, and laid the foundations of modern Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - a true transdisciplinary scientist and visionary thinker who cautioned us more than 130 years ago to utilize nature's resources in a sustainable fashion.
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We still do not understand exactly how antibiotics kill bacteria. However, this understanding is necessary if we want to develop new antibiotics. And that is precisely what is urgently needed, because bacteria are currently showing more and more resistance to existing antibiotics. Therefore, researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn used high-performance microscopes to observe the effect of different antibiotics on the cell division of Staphylococcus aureus. They found that the biosynthesis of peptidoglycan, core component of the bacterial cell wall, is the driving force during the entire process of cell division. In addition, they clarified how exactly different antibiotics block cell division within a few minutes. The results have now been published in the journal Science Advances.
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Experimental Physical Chemistry
Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry
Arrival by car
The main access road is from the east is the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt(Main)). Across the A 560 and the A 59 ("air port highway") you reach Bonn.
From the west (Belgium, Netherlands and the area around Aachen) the A 4 and the A 555 are leading to Bonn. Bonn is surrounded by a highway ring providing a fast inner-city access.
Anreise mit dem Zug
Bonn can easily by reached by train.
Bonn main station is connected to the ICE/IC/EC-net.
The regular stop Siegburg of the ICE route Frankfurt-Cologne can be reached by city railway line 66.
The footpath from the station to the institute is shown on the map.