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Oscar Hertwig

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oscar Hertwig , 1849-1922, German embryologist. He studied medicine with Haeckel and Gegenbaur. In 1875 he established the fact that fertilization consists of the union of the nuclei of a male and a female sex cell. He studied the germ-layer theory (introducing the term coelom ) and malformations of vertebrate embryos. ... Read more
Gregor Johann Mendel
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...prelate in 1868. Failing eyesight and his duties as prelate somewhat curtailed his researches; although he anticipated Oscar Hertwig's discovery that fertilization of an egg involved only one male sex cell, these findings went unpublished. Mendel was... Read more
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...pronouncement (the cell theory) was confirmed and elaborated by a series of discoveries and interpretations. In 1892 Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922) suggested that processes at the organism's level are reflections of cellular processes, thus establishing... Read more

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