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Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891) was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics .
May 9, 2024 · Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist famous for his work on plant cells. Nägeli received his earliest training from the German nature-philosopher Lorenz Oken and later studied botany under Augustin Pyrame de Candolle at the University of Geneva.
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Carl Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. Coined a lot of biology terms as well.
6 days ago · By 1846 these investigations had convinced him that Schleiden's theory of cells budding off the nuclear surface was incorrect. Naegeli discovered the antherozoids (male gametes) in ferns and archegonia (female sex organs) in Ricciocarpus but did not realize the analogy of these to the pollen and ovary of seed plants.
THE death of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, on May 10, 1891, removes the last survivor of that distinguished group of botanists who, side by side with zoologists such as Schwann and Kölliker, laid,...
- D. H. Scott
- 1891
(aka Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli) Swiss botanist who studied cell division and pollination (1817 - 1891). Nageli was a prolific author, writing many technical papers and several books, including A mechanico-physiological theory of organic evolution, published in 1884.
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Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli. 1817-1891. Swiss botanist who studied plant cells. Nägeli identified structures later to be called chromosomes. He observed cell division and osmosis in algae. Nägeli introduced the idea of a group of plant cells, the meristem, always capable of division.
