Heinz Gibian

Heinz Rudolf Gibian (born 30 March 1916 in Munich, died 13 May 1995 in Berlin) was a German biochemist, who was noted for his research on steroid hormones.

He was a senior researcher at the drug research department of Schering AG and was later a member of the company’s senior management. He was also an honorary Professor of biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin. Gibian earned his Doktor-Ingenieur degree at the Technical University of Munich, where he was a student of the Nobel laureate Hans Fischer. He was also a board member of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.