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Apr 8, 2008 · Boveri ingeniously used this, as he called it, “experiment of Nature” to tackle different sets of questions, such as the mechanism of cell division, the function of the chromosomes and their regulation by the cytoplasm; he was thus able to apply insights gained in one process to the study of another and managed what many biologists still dream a...
- Florian Maderspacher
- 2008
- Won Seven-Year Fellowship
- Published Chromosome Observations
- Married American Professor
- Books
- Online
With his family's deteriorating finances in mind, he took anatomy courses and finished a Ph.D. degree in that field in 1885. (In the German educational system, a Gymnasium lies somewhere between high school and college levels in the U.S.) Boveri's doctoral thesis was called Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Nervenfasern(Contributions to the Study of Nerve ...
Boveri's discoveries about roundworm cell development were published in installments between 1885 and 1890; the centerpieces were three Zellenstudien(Cell Studies), of which the second (1888) contained his important chromosome observations. The third study extended the observations Boveri made in the second, confirming van Beneden's guess that egg ...
At Würzburg, Boveri began to attract top students, some of them German but others visitors from foreign countries. One of his students was an American woman, Marcella O'Grady, who was a professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her scientific activities stirred up some controversy in the generally all-male world of the German universit...
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"Theodor Boveri, 1862-1915," DNA from the Beginning, http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/concept–8/con8bio.html (January 15, 2005). "Theodor Boveri, 1862-1915," University of Würzburg Biozentrum, http://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/about/boveri.html.en (January 15, 2005).
Jul 26, 2014 · This stabilized Boveri's weak financial situation and gave him the chance to do research in the field of microscopic anatomy, combining for the first time cytology, genetics and embryology. From this, a new field of research was born, ie cell biology. Most of his work was done at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Munich.
- Manfred Dietel
- 2014
Emphasizing that chromosomes are organized structures, he showed that each chromosome is responsible for certain hereditary characteristics. Boveri and Edouard van Beneden independently discovered a structure connecting the chromosomes during cell division.
Oct 1, 2001 · Proto-oncogenes and cancer. Boveri postulated the existence of 'growth-stimulatory chromosomes' and, furthermore, that the unlimited growth of malignant tumour cells is attributable to a...
- Allan Balmain
- 2001
Rabl then established that the number of chromosomes is the same in all cells. This formed the basis of Boveri’s theory of the individuality and continuity of chromosomes, and Weismann’s hypothesis in 1889 to account for the constancy of genetic material from generation to generation.
Jun 4, 2008 · Theodor Boveri (1862–1915) was a towering figure in cell biology and cancer research during the early twentieth century. Trained as a zoologist, he probed the workings of the nucleus and...
