Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
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Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born June 25, 1939 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a German scientist and politician.
He is the author of Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1995) and Limits to Privatization and founder of Wuppertal Institute.
Between 1998 and 2005 he was member of the German Parliament, representing the SPD.
He received the Takeda Award in 2001.
In 2005 he was appointed dean of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
For his family tree, see Weizsäcker.[1]