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Julius von Sachs (German:; 2 October 1832 – 29 May 1897) was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He is considered the founder of experimental plant physiology and co-founder of modern water culture.
Timothy Walker explains how Julius von Sachs discovered where starch was made in a plant, and how new microscopy techniques let him see inside plant cells, where he found chloroplasts. Tweet
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May 17, 2018 · Three years earlier, in 1865, Sachs produced the equally impressive Handbuch der Experimental‐Physiologie der Pflanzen (Handbook of Experimental Plant Physiology), which summarized the state...
Joseph Priestley (1732-1804), a British chemist and theologian (Figure 2), showed that plants restore a property in the air that is necessary for animal life, but destroyed by it ( i.e. respiration). This was actually oxygen, a gas which he co-discovered (1774) with Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist (Figure 2).
This video clip from Botany: A Blooming History demonstrates the classic experiment to show that light is needed for the production of starch, placing it in the context of pioneering 19th century scientist Julius von Sachs.
