Peter Boysen Jensen
Botanist
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Peter Boysen Jensen's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of Copenhagen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Boysen Jensen was a Danish plant physiologist. His research was fundamental to further work on the auxin theory of tropisms. Early life and education Peter was born in Hjerting, near Esbjerg in southern Jutland. Being raised on a farm, he discovered early his affinity to nature. He studied botany during his first premed year, and decided to focus on plant physiology after being influenced by ecologist Eugenius Warming. and Wilhelm Johannsen were Boysen Jensen's plant physiology teachers and advisors. While he was a college student in Copenhagen however, neither of these was actively involved in experimental plant physiology. In 1908, Boysen Jensen earned the degree of magister scientiarum. He spent three months of the following year in Wilhelm Pfeffer's Leipzig lab and another four with the biochemist Ernst Schulze in Zürich. Boysen Jensen completed his doctoral studies in 1910, with the thesis The breakdown of sugar during the respiration process in higher plants.
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