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#19401

Johann Christian August Heinroth

Johann Christian August Heinroth

1773 - 1843 (70 years)

Johann Christian August Heinroth was a German physician and psychologist who was the first to use the term psychosomatic. Heinroth divided the human personality into three personality types in his scholarly papers and published books in the 1800s, describing the Uberuns , the Ich and the Fleish .

#19402

Ivan Parfenievich Borodin

Ivan Parfenievich Borodin

1847 - 1930 (83 years)

Ivan Parfenievich Borodin was a Russian botanist, academician, and the founding president of the Russian Botanical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He campaigned for the protection of natural spaces.

#19403

Otto Funke

1828 - 1879 (51 years)

Otto Funke was a German physiologist born in Chemnitz. He studied in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and in 1852, he became a lecturer of physiology at the University of Leipzig. In 1853, he became an associate professor to the medical faculty at Leipzig, and in 1860, a professor of physiology at the University of Freiburg. One of his better known students at Leipzig was the physiologist Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering .

#19404

Arthur F. Coca

1875 - 1959 (84 years)

Arthur Fernandez Coca was an American immunologist known for his research on allergies. Biography Coca was born in Philadelphia. He was educated at Haverford College and obtained his M.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1900. He studied at Heidelberg University and during 1907–1909 was an assistant to Emil von Dungern at the Cancer Institute of Heidelberg's chemical laboratory. He worked as a bacteriologist at the Bureau of Science in Manila and was instructor in Pathology and Bacteriology at Cornell University Medical College during 1910–1919. He was Professor of Immunology and Professor of Medicine at the New York Postgraduate Medical School, Columbia University from 1924 to 1935.

#19405

Gustav von Bunge

Gustav von Bunge

1844 - 1920 (76 years)

Gustav Piers Alexander von Bunge was a German physiologist known for work in the field of nutrition physiology. He was the son of botanist Alexander von Bunge . Biography In 1874 he received his degree in chemistry at the University of Dorpat, followed by a doctorate in medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1882. At Dorpat, he had as instructors, Friedrich Bidder and Carl Schmidt . In 1885 he became an associate professor, and from 1886 until his death in 1920, he served as a professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Basel.

#19406

Robert Everard Woodson

1904 - 1963 (59 years)

Robert Everard Woodson was an American botanist. He received a degree in biology in 1929 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He gave classes in botany at Washington University, and from 1945 to 1963 he was a regular professor. He was also curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

#19407

Robert Muir

1864 - 1959 (95 years)

Sir Robert Muir, FRS, FRSE, FRCP, FRCPE, FRFPSG was a Scottish physician and pathologist who carried out pioneering work in immunology, and was one of the leading figures in medical research in Glasgow in the early 20th century.

#19408

Federico Kurtz

1854 - 1920 (66 years)

Federico Kurtz, also known as Fritz , was a German-Argentine botanist. Biography Fritz Kurtz was born in Berlin and earned his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1879. He relocated to Córdoba, Argentina, and in 1884, took over the chair of botany at the National University of Córdoba. Building on the performance studies and research begun under his predecessor, Dr. Paul Lorentz, Kurtz expanded the school's collections and published key works in the study of botany and paleobotany in Argentina.

#19409

Swale Vincent

1868 - 1933 (65 years)

Prof Thomas Swale Vincent MD FRSE LLD was a British physiologist who spent most of his working life in Canada. Early years Thomas Swale Vincent was born in Birmingham on 24 May 1868, the son of Joseph Vincent and his wife, Margaret Swale.

#19410

Suresh Jayakar

1937 - 1988 (51 years)

Suresh Dinakar Jayakar was an Indian biologist who pioneered in the use of quantitative approaches in genetics and biology. He studied mathematical statistics, physics and mathematics at the University of Lucknow and joined the Indian Statistical Institute in 1959 where he met J. B. S. Haldane who had just moved to India. At that institute, Jayakar received early instruction in genetics in a course taught by Krishna Dronamraju and additional training with Helen Spurway.

#19411

Lily Newton

1893 - 1981 (88 years)

Lily Newton was professor of botany and vice-principal at the University of Wales. Early life and education Newton was born at Pensford in Somerset in 1893, the daughter of George and Melinda Batten. She attended Colston’s Girls' School, Bristol, where she was captain of school. She studied botany at the University of Bristol, where she was awarded the Vincent Stuckey Lean scholarship in botany and graduated with a first class honours degree.

#19412

Peter Hagoort

#19413

Tatiana Dobrolyubova

1891 - 1972 (81 years)

Tatiana Dobrolyubova was a Russian geologist and paleontologist. Life and work Tatiana Alekseevna Dobrolyubova was born in 1891 in Nizhegorod Province in the Russian Empire. She completed gymnasium in 1909 and was awarded a first-class diploma from the Moscow Higher Women's Courses in 1915. She trained as a teacher at the University of Moscow from 1920 and then became an assistant professor of geology there in January 1922. From 1921 to 1931 Dobrolyubova organized nine large geological survey expeditions to the northern Ural Mountains, but her interests gradually turned to paleontology rather than geology.

#19414

Michael Abercrombie

1912 - 1979 (67 years)

Michael Abercrombie FRS was a British cell biologist and embryologist. He was one of four children of the poet Lascelles Abercrombie. Early life Michael was born at Ryton near Dymock in Gloucestershire on 14 August 1912, the third son of Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and critic, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Owen Gwatkin, a surgeon at Grange-over-Sands. His uncle was the famed British town planner, Patrick Abercrombie.

#19415

Johan Erhard Areschoug

Johan Erhard Areschoug

1811 - 1887 (76 years)

Johan Erhard Areschoug was a Swedish botanist who was a native of Göteborg. He was a member of the Arreskow family . His first name is sometimes recorded as "John". He studied natural sciences at the University of Lund, where in 1838 he earned his doctorate in philosophy. In 1859 he succeeded Elias Magnus Fries as professor of botany at the University of Uppsala, a position he maintained until 1876. In 1851, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

#19416

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

1812 - 1871 (59 years)

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist who was a native of Offenbach am Main. From 1848–1867, he was an associate professor of general pathology and therapy at the University of Giessen, where, from 1867 to 1871, he served as the first full professor of pathological anatomy and therapy. After his death in 1871, his position at Giessen was filled by Theodor Langhans .

#19417

Arthur Henfrey

1819 - 1859 (40 years)

Arthur Henfrey was an English surgeon and botanist. Life Henfrey was born of English parents at Aberdeen on 1 November 1819. He studied medicine and surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843. Poor health caused him to give up his medical career.

#19418

Alfred James Ewart

1872 - 1937 (65 years)

Alfred James Ewart, FRS was an English-Australian botanist. Early life and education Ewart was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, second son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha née Williams. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, Liverpool, then graduated with a Ph.D. from Leipzig University and D.Sc. from Oxford.

#19419

John Thomas Patterson

1878 - 1960 (82 years)

John Thomas Patterson was an American geneticist and professor at the University of Texas. Early life Patterson was born from James and Anna Patterson in a family of 5 children on a farm near Piqua, Ohio on November 3, 1878.

#19420

Boris Schwanwitsch

1889 - 1957 (68 years)

Boris Nikolayevich Schwanwitsch , , was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He is best known for his studies of the colour pattern of the wings. Boris Schwanwitz graduated from the St. Petersburg University . After graduation, he changed a number of academic positions: assistant lecturer in Entomology at the Stebut Agricultural School , assistant lecturer and private-docent at Petrograd University, professor at the Perm University . In 1930, he returned to Leningrad to take the position of the head of Entomology department of the Leningrad University Vice-president of ...

#19421

Hugo Iltis

1882 - 1952 (70 years)

Hugo Iltis was a Czech-American biologist. Life and work Iltis was born on April 11, 1882, in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His family was of Jewish descent, and the family name translates as "polecat". He was the son of the town physician Dr. Moritz Iltis. He became a citizen of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic in 1919.

#19422

William Lucas Distant

William Lucas Distant

1845 - 1922 (77 years)

William Lucas Distant was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distant and his wife, Sarah Ann Distant . Following his father's death in 1867, a trip to the Malay Peninsula to visit his older brother, also named Alexander and a ship's captain, aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana , a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. .

#19423

Mary Parke

1908 - 1989 (81 years)

Mary Winifred Parke, FRS, was a British marine botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society specialising in phycology, the study of algae. Scientific work Mary Parke contributed a great deal to the study of marine algae, publishing numerous articles on the subject. Her pioneering work on culturing algae in the laboratory may be considered her most significant contribution. She discovered that the flagellate Isochrysis galbana was ideal for feeding oyster larvae; cultures of this species are used for fish farming and in research laboratories throughout the world. Most researchers and fish farmers...

#19424

Karl von Bardeleben

Karl von Bardeleben

1849 - 1919 (70 years)

Karl von Bardeleben was a German anatomist born in Giessen. He was the son of surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben . He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1874 he became a Privatdozent at the University of Jena, where he later served as an associate professor and full professor . Bardeleben specialized in the fields of topographic and comparative anatomy.

#19425

Jacques Genest

#19426

Emily Ray Gregory

1863 - 1946 (83 years)

Emily Ray Gregory was an American zoologist who is best known as holding the American Women's Table at the Naples Zoological Station and her work with the United States War Trade Board and the United States Treasury Department.

#19427

George J. Hucker

1893 - 1988 (95 years)

George J. Hucker was an American microbiologist who was involved in the founding of the Institute of Food Technologists and was involved in dairy microbiology. Career at Cornell University Hucker was a professor of bacteriology and chief of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York during the early 20th century.

#19428

Peter Ascanius

1723 - 1803 (80 years)

Peter Ascanius was a Norwegian-Danish biologist and geologist. He was a professor of zoology and mineralogy. Early life and education He was born at Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. In 1742 he graduated from Trondheim Cathedral School and attended the University of Copenhagen where he studied medicine and took a Bachelor's degree in 1747. From 1752 he stayed a couple of years at Uppsala University where he was a student of Carl Linnaeus . He studied natural history with Linnaeus and chemistry and metallurgy with Johan Gottschalk Wallerius . Ascanius undertook a study trip in the year...

#19429

Robert Bentley

1821 - 1893 (72 years)

Robert Bentley was an English botanist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume Medicinal Plants, published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.

#19430

Walter Medley Tattersall

1882 - 1943 (61 years)

Walter Medley Tattersall was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids. He was born in Liverpool, the eldest son of a draper's family. He studied zoology at the University of Liverpool, where he graduated in 1901. Subsequently, he worked as a naturalist for the Irish Fisheries Department under Ernest William Lyons Holt, where he began his studies of crustaceans. In 1909 he became the director of the Manchester Museum and also worked as a tutor in marine biology at the universities of Manchester and Sheffield.

#19431

Paul Grützner

1847 - 1919 (72 years)

Paul Grützner was a German physiologist born in Festenberg, Silesia . He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Berlin and Breslau, where he was a pupil of Rudolf Heidenhain. After graduation, he was an assistant at the physiological institute in Breslau. In 1881, he became a professor at the University of Bern, and in 1884 succeeded Karl von Vierordt at the physiological institute at the University of Tübingen.

#19432

Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin

1848 - 1904 (56 years)

Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin was a Russian Empire botanist. His early education was in his home town of Voronezh, where he attended secondary school before being admitted to the Law School at the Imperial Moscow University, before changing his enrollment to the natural sciences in 1871 and graduating with a thesis on Tropaeolaceae. After graduation, he continued working at the university, being appointed to the chair of botany in 1874. He founded the Moscow School of Botanical Morphology.

#19433

Alberto Barton

1870 - 1950 (80 years)

Alberto Barton was an Argentine-born Peruvian microbiologist who discovered the etiologic agent of Carrion´s disease or Oroya fever. The bacteria was named: Bartonella bacilliformis, in his honor. It is the type species of the genus Bartonella, and family Bartonellaceae.

#19434

Jens Rathke

1769 - 1855 (86 years)

Jens Rathke was a Norwegian professor, scientist and zoologist. Biography Rathke was born in Christiania , Norway. He was the son of Casper Elias Rathke and Margaretha Madsdatter Schultz . He was a student at the Christiania Cathedral School until 1787. Rathke took Cand.theol. at the University of Copenhagen in 1792, but soon left theology and began to study natural sciences.

#19435

Alexander W. von Götte

1840 - 1922 (82 years)

Alexander Wilhelm Götte , best known as Alexander Goette was a German zoologist born in St. Petersburg. He is remembered for his studies involving the biological development of various animals. The invertebrate species Opisthocystis goettei is named after him.

#19436

Charles E. de M. Sajous

1852 - 1929 (77 years)

Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous was an American endocrinologist, laryngologist, and writer based in Philadelphia. He was a prolific writer and editor of medical textbooks and encyclopedias, and was the first president of the Endocrine Society. He held professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.

#19437

Lucien Marcus Underwood

Lucien Marcus Underwood

1853 - 1907 (54 years)

Lucien Marcus Underwood was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life and career He was born in New Woodstock, New York. He enrolled at Syracuse University in 1873 and graduated in 1877. He earned his masters in 1878 and finally and completed his PhD in 1879 under Alexander Winchell. During his graduate school, he taught at Cazenovia Seminary for two years.

#19438

Christen Friis Rottbøll

1727 - 1797 (70 years)

Christen Friis Rottbøll was a Danish physician and botanist: He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus. Early life Rottbøll was born on the Hørbygaard estate at Holbæk, the son of Christen Michelsen Rottbøll and Margrethe Cathrine Friis. His father was the manager of the estate but died in 1729. His mother was married second time to manager of Hagestedgaard Ole Nielsen Faxøe.

#19439

Federico Johow

1859 - 1933 (74 years)

Federico Johow, born as Friedrich Richard Adalbert Johow; was a German-Chilean botanist and biologist born in Chodziesen , Province of Posen. Life Friedrich began his higher education at the University of Berlin, and afterwards studied zoology and botany at the University of Bonn, where he obtained his doctorate in 1880. In 1882 he took part on a study trip to Venezuela and the Lesser Antilles, financed by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1888 he was an appointed associate professor of natural sciences at the University of Bonn.

#19440

Columbus O'Donnell Iselin

1904 - 1971 (67 years)

Columbus O'Donnell Iselin was an American oceanographer. He was the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950, and from 1956 to 1960. He was Professor of Physical Oceanography at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

#19441

Harry Hoogstraal

Harry Hoogstraal

1917 - 1986 (69 years)

Harry Hoogstraal was an American entomologist and parasitologist. He was described as "the greatest authority on ticks and tickborne diseases who ever lived." The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Harry Hoogstraal Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Entomology honors his contributions to science.

#19442

Domenico Viviani

1772 - 1840 (68 years)

Domenico Viviani was an Italian botanist and naturalist. In 1803, he was named professor of botany at the University of Genoa, where he is credited with the founding of its botanical garden. He is known for his natural history studies of the Ligurian region as well as botanical investigations of flora native to other areas of the Italian mainland, Sardinia, Corsica, and Libya.

#19443

Václav Treitz

1819 - 1872 (53 years)

Václav Treitz was a Czech pathologist. Biography Treitz was born on 9 April 1819 in Hostomice, Bohemia. He studied medicine in Prague, and performed post-graduate studies in Vienna with Joseph Hyrtl . Subsequently, he practiced medicine at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, returning to Prague in 1855, where he became a professor and director of the institute of pathological anatomy.

#19444

Girish Chandra Bose

1853 - 1939 (86 years)

Girish Chandra Bose was an Indian educator and botanist. Early life and education Bose was born on 29 October 1853 in the village of Berugram in the Burdwan district of India. He attended Hooghly College, and received a BA degree in 1876. After graduation, he was hired as a lecturer of science at Ravenshaw College, where he worked until 1881.

#19445

Valéry Mayet

1839 - 1909 (70 years)

Valéry Mayet was a French entomologist. He was professor of zoology in Montpellier at the French National School of Agriculture . Publications Sur l'oeuf du Phylloxera, 1881 .Résultats des traitements effectués en Suisse en vue de la destruction du Phylloxera, 1881 .Voyage dans le sud de la Tunisie. 1886 .Les Insectes de la vigne. Montpellier: Camille Coulet, 1890.The phylloxera of the vine, by Valéry Mayet; translated for the Board of Viticultural Commissioners, 1894.La Cochenille des vignes du Chili. 1895 .Essai de géographie zoologique de l'Hérault. 1898 .Catalogue raisonné des reptiles et batraciens de la Tunisie.

#19446

George E. Coghill

George E. Coghill

1872 - 1941 (69 years)

George Ellett Coghill was an American philosopher anatomist best known for his work relating neuromuscular system development with movement patterns in embryos. Coghill performed much of the empirical work supporting the theory that development of movement is not simply the accumulation of individualized reflexes, but rather a result of the differentiation of generalized total movement.

#19447

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

1800 - 1874 (74 years)

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli was an Italian naturalist. He became a professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia in 1851, and was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in 1863. He was interested in various domains of natural history, and identified the fungus responsible for the white muscardine disease of silkworms, Beauveria bassiana.

#19448

Max Westermaier

Max Westermaier

1852 - 1903 (51 years)

Maximilian Westermaier was a German botanist. He studied sciences at the University of Munich, where he was influenced by botanists Ludwig Radlkofer and Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli. After graduation, he worked as an assistant to Simon Schwendener in Berlin, becoming privat-docent in 1879. In 1887 he relocated to Königsberg as a temporary replacement for the late Robert Caspary . Beginning in 1890, he taught classes at the gymnasium in Freising, Bavaria.

#19449

Anatoly Sharpenak

1895 - 1969 (74 years)

Anatoly Ernestovich Sharpenak was a Russian Empire and Soviet biochemist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. Author of one of the dental caries theories named after him. Biography A. E. Sharpenak was born into a family of Baltic Germans which was quite wealthy, settled in Russia, and living in the area of German settlement . He graduated from a good private school and then university.

#19450

Manfred Reichel

1896 - 1984 (88 years)

Manfred Reichel was a Swiss micropaleontologist best known for his work on the morphology of foraminiferans, especially alveolinids. He taught as a professor at the University of Basel for almost forty years, where he became the school's first professor of paleontology in 1940. Lukas Hottinger studied under him during this time. Trained in zoology, Reichel also had a keen interest in the flight mechanics of birds, pterosaurs and bats, about which he published several papers.

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