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- This enabled him to transfer in 1885 to the Zoological Institute in Munich, the directorship of which had just been assumed by Richard Hertwig. It was Hertwig who drew Boveri’s interest toward research in cell biology, the area in which he was to make his most significant contributions.
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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...
Baltzer, Fritz, Theodor Boveri: Life and Work of a Great Biologist (translated from the German by Dorothea Rudnick), University of CaliforniaPress, 1967. Gillispie, Charles Coulston, editor in chief, Dictionary of Scientific Biography,Scribner's, 1970. World of Anatomy and Physiology,Gale, 2002.
"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).
Theodor Boveri concentrated on cytology and the investigation of fertilization, cell division and early embryonic development using microscopy, sophisticated staining techniques and his highly...
- Helga Satzinger
- 2008
Boveri and Edouard van Beneden independently discovered a structure connecting the chromosomes during cell division. Calling it the centrosome, Boveri demonstrated that it provides the division center for the cell. Boveri's work has greatly influenced subsequent cytological interpretation of genetic phenomena.
Mar 3, 2011 · Theodor Boveri investigated the mechanisms of heredity. He developed the chromosomal theory of inheritance and the idea of chromosomal individuality. Boveri sought to provide a comprehensive explanation for the hereditary role and behavior of chromosomes.
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.
Abstract. As long ago as 1914, Theodor Boveri suggested that there is an inhibitory mechanism in every normal cell that prevents the process of cell division until the inhibition has been overcome by a special stimulus.
