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German biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, German biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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Sachs, Julius von (1832-1897) was a German botanist, a scientist who studies plants. See more »
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Alois Alzheimer
Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who in 1907 first described a brain disease that later was named for him.
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Wassermann, August von (1866–1925), a German bacteriologist. In 1906 he devised the Wassermann blood test for diagnosing syphilis.
See more »August Weismann
Weismann, August (1834-1914), a German biologist, developed the germ-plasm theory of heredity.
See more »Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
Von Mueller, Baron Ferdinand (1825-1896) was a German-born Australian botanist who made extensive contributions to the knowledge of native Australian plants.
See more »Bert Sakmann
Sakmann, Bert (1942-) is a German physiologist. He won a share of the 1991 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how ions flow in and out of cells.
See more »Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Nüsslein-Volhard, Christane (1942-), a German geneticist, was the first German woman Nobel laureate in science.
See more »Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich (1834–1919), a German zoologist and philosopher. Haeckel was the chief popularizer on the European continent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
See more »Feodor Lynen
Lynen, Feodor (1911-1976) was a German biochemist who studied how cells produce cholesterol and lipids, which are fatty substances.
See more »Ferdinand Cohn
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius (1828–1898), a German botanist, often called the founder of bacteriology.
See more »Franz Joseph Gall
Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828), a German-born French anatomist, founded the pseudoscience (false science) of phrenology.
See more »Friedrich Loffler
Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes (1852-1915), a German bacteriologist. In 1882, Loffler discovered the bacilli causing glanders and swine erysipelas.
See more »Georges Jean Franz Kohler
Köhler, Georges Jean Franz (1887-1967), a German biochemist and immunologist, discovered a technique for inducing antibody-secreting B cells to produce virtually unlimited amounts of monoclonal antibodies.
See more »Gerhard Domagk
Domagk, Gerhard (1895–1964), a German biochemist. In 1935 he reported his discovery that prontosil, a new dye, had antibacterial effects.
See more »Gunter Blobel
Blobel, Günter (BLOH buhl) (1936-) is a German-born American cell biologist who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how newly made proteins find their correct locations within a cell.
See more »Hans Fischer
Fischer, Hans (1881-1945), a German biochemist, carried out research on the coloring matter in leaves, blood, and bile.
See more »Hans Spemann
Spemann, Hans (1869-1941) was a German biologist and a pioneer in the field of experimental embryology.
See more »Hartmut Michel
Michel, Hartmut (1948-), a German biochemist, was the first to successfully crystallize a molecule important in photosynthesis.
See more »Hugo von Mohl
Mohl, Hugo von (1805–1872), a German botanist. Mohl brought the word protoplasm into general use as the name for the fundamental substance of cells.
See more »Johann Deisenhofer
Deisenhofer, Johann (1943-) is a German biophysicist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry with colleagues Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel, for their work in mapping the chemical reaction at the center of photosynthesis.
See more »Julius von Sachs
Sachs, Julius von (1832-1897) was a German botanist, a scientist who studies plants.
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