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Theodor Heinrich Boveri (12 October 1862 – 15 October 1915) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. [1] He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer, and for describing chromatin diminution in nematodes. [2] His brother was industrialist Walter Boveri.
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Mar 3, 2011 · Theodor Boveri died on 15 October 1915 in Würzburg, Germany, at the age of fifty three. The Theodor Boveri Institute at Würzburg, which encompasses a number of key departments in developmental biology, genetics and other related fields, bears witness to Boveri’s profound impact on cytology, embryology and biology at large.
Theodor Heinrich Boveri (born October 12, 1862, Bamberg, Bavaria [Germany]—died October 15, 1915, Würzburg) was a German cytologist whose work with roundworm eggs proved that chromosomes are separate, continuous entities within the nucleus of a cell. Boveri received an M.D. degree (1885) from the University of Munich and from 1885 until 1893 ...
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Theodor Boveri is best remembered for his chromosome theory of heredity. However, the contributions that he and his wife, Marcella O'Grady Boveri, made to the early days of genetics are greater ...
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May 17, 2018 · Boveri was the second of four sons of Theodor Boveri, a physician descended from a family of Frankish origin, and Antonie Elssner Boveri. He attended school in Bamberg from 1868 to 1875, and the Realgymnasium in Nuremberg from 1875 to 1881. In that year he entered the University of Munich, where after a single semester of concentration on ...
The end of the nineteenth century was marked by advancements in cytological techniques and microscopy. During this period, German embryologist Theodor Boveri took Flemming's findings to the next ...
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 ...
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