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May 17, 2018 · Photographs of Julius von Sachs. Shown to the left is a portrait and signature of Sachs at the age of ca. 45 years. The inscription reads "Freiburg, August 22, 1868, Prof. Dr. J. Sachs" (adapted ...
Julius von Sachs. Julius von Sachs ( German: [zaks]; 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. Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop are monumental figures in the history of botany by first demonstrating ...
Apr 1, 2022 · Julius Sachs (1832–1897), who has been quite rightly called “the father of plant physiology,” was a German physiologist of international standing, whose research interests contributed to virtually every branch of the plant sciences, and whose work presaged plant molecular biology and systems biology. Here, we focus on one of his last publications, from 1892, wherein he argued that the ...
May 17, 2018 · The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Julius von Sachs' (1832–1897) Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Textbook of Botany ), which provided a comprehensive summary of what was then known about the plant sciences. Three years earlier, in 1865, Sachs produced the equally impressive Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der ...
- Ulrich Kutschera, Karl J. Niklas
- 2018
Julius von Sachs and the academic woman The biologist and historian of science Hartmut Gimmler (1940–2013) published a series of monographs wherein he summarized the work and achievements of Julius Sachs from different perspectives. Unfortunately, as detailed in Gimmler’s important contributions to “Sachsology”, the
- Ulrich Kutschera, Karl J Niklas
- 2018
May 17, 2018 · The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Julius von Sachs' (1832–1897) Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Textbook of Botany ), which provided a comprehensive summary of what was then known about the plant sciences. Three years earlier, in 1865, Sachs produced the equally impressive Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der ...
BBC Four, 2011 - 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.
