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STRASBURGER, Eduard Adolf (1844 – 1912)

STRASBURGER, Eduard Adolf (1844 – 1912)

1844 – 1912

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1880 CE

#123

Ueber Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 3te. Aufl.

A pioneer work on the formation and division of cells. In this third edition Strasburger established one of the principles of modern cytology, i.e., that independent cell formation does not occur but that fresh nuclei…

1884 CE

#229.1

Neue Untersuchungen über den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Phanerogamen als Gründlage für eine Theorie der Zeugung.

Like Roux, Strasburger hypothesized that the cell nucleus contained the material basis of heredity, and developed the idea with evidence from microscopical observations.