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Apr 8, 2024 · Theodor Schwann (born December 7, 1810, Neuss, Prussia [Germany]—died January 11, 1882, Cologne, Germany) was a German physiologist who founded modern histology by defining the cell as the basic unit of animal structure. He was a cofounder (with Matthias Jakob Schleiden) of the cell theory. Schwann studied at the Jesuits’ College at Cologne ...
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Theodor Schwann ( German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʃvan]; [1] [2] 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist. [3] His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals. Other contributions include the discovery of Schwann cells in the peripheral ...
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Beginnings and Education. Theodor Schwann was born in Germany’s oldest city, Neuss, on December 7, 1810. He was the fourth son of Elisabeth Rottels and her husband Leonard Schwann, a goldsmith and publisher. Theodor attended the Tricoronatum – a Jesuit college in Cologne. There he was influenced by the religious doctrines of Wilhelm Smets.
May 18, 2018 · Theodor Schwann was born at Neuss near Düsseldorf on Dec. 7, 1810. At the University of Bonn, which he entered in 1829, he met Johannes Müller, the physiologist, whom he assisted in his experiments. Schwann continued his medical studies at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Berlin, from which he graduated in 1834.
Jun 2, 2021 · Theodor Schwann (1810–1882) Theodor Schwann (Fig. 1 ), the eminent founder of modern histology and the discoverer of the lemmocyte, was born on December 7, 1810 in Neuss, Germany, the fourth son of Elisabeth (née Rottels) and Leonard Schwann, the owner of a local bookstore. Theodor grew up in a large family—he had twelve siblings.
- Michał K. Owecki
- 10.1007/s00415-021-10630-6
- 2021
- J Neurol. 2021; 268(12): 4921-4922.
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Theodor Schwann is best remembered for the eponymous Schwann cell that he studied and described in his microscopic studies of nervous tissue. However, his most important contribution to science would be the fact that he was one of the founders of the ' Cell doctrine ' which proposed that all living beings were made of fundamental units called cells - a foundational principle on which rests ...
Cell theory, fundamental scientific theory of biology according to which cells are held to be the basic units of all living tissues. First proposed by German scientists Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in 1838, the theory that all plants and animals are made up of cells marked a great
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