Died 1905-11-02.
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Albert von Kölliker was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist.
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science · Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist (1817–1905) · zoologist · neuroscientist · histologist · university teacher · anatomist · botanist · physiologist · physician · also Albert von Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von Kölliker, A. V. Kölliker, Koell., Albert von Koelliker, Kölliker
Born 6 July 1817 · Died 2 November 1905 · Q123528
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Died 1905-11-02.
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Won Linnean Medal (1902).
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Won Cothenius Medal (1897).
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Won Copley Medal (1897).
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Was named an honorary member of the American Association for Anatomy
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And thus permitted to add the predicate "von" to his surname
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Reproduces the histological preparations of the father of neuroscience Ramón y Cajal and confirmed the theory of neuronism
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Teased these granules from insect muscle, in which they are very profuse, found them to swell in water, and showed them to possess a membrane
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1879).
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Kölliker revived Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's theory that evolution proceeds by large steps (saltationism), under the name of heterogenesis
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1862).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1860).
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And in 1897 gave him its highest token of esteem, the Copley medal
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Continued under his hands to be one of the most important zoological periodicals
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The University of Würzburg, attracted by his rising fame, offered him the post of professor of physiology and of microscopical and comparative anatomy
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That smooth or unstriated muscle is made up of distinct units, of nucleated muscle cells
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Graduated in philosophy at Zürich, and in medicine at Heidelberg in 1842 The first academic post which he held was that of prosector of anatomy under Henle, but the tenure of this office was brief – in 1844 he returne
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Before he graduated, were on the structure of animals of the most varied kinds
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Born 1817-07-06.
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