Nature: August Weismann, 1834–1914
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August Weismann
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.
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science · German evolutionary biologist (1834–1914) · zoologist · geneticist · physician · evolutionary biologist · botanist · director · also August Weismann, Weism., Friedrich Leopold August Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann, Weismann
Born 17 January 1834 · Died 5 November 1914 · Q76465
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1914· 1 entry
Died 1914-11-05.
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1910· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1910).
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1908· 2 entries
Won Darwin–Wallace Medal (1908).
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Won Darwin Medal (1908).
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1894· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1894).
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1890· 1 entry
By Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one diploid cell into four haploid cells if the number of chromosomes had to be maintained
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1883· 2 entries
Titled "On inheritance" ("Über die Vererbung")
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At the level of chromosomes, by Van Beneden in Ascaris eggs
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1879· 1 entry
Their son, Julius Weismann (1879–1950), was a composer.
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1876· 2 entries
Won Cothenius Medal (1876).
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That transmutation of species is directly due to the influence of environment
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1859· 1 entry
Became Chief Medical Officer in the military, and on a leave from duty he walked through Northern Italy and the County of Tyrol
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1856· 1 entry
Wrote his dissertation on the synthesis of hippuric acid in the human body
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-01-17.
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