Wilhelm roux biography of albert
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Women authors in the first 50 years of DGE-contributions and research topics
Introduction
Wilhelm Roux founded the journal Development, Genes and Evolution (DGEFootnote 1) under the name of ‘Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen’ 130 years ago, in 1894, to promote the newly emerged idea that developmental mechanics is the grund for understanding the formation of shapes. He published a long mission statement in the first issue, at the end of which he thanked a long list of ‘Herren’ (gentlemen) who had expressed their support for the new journal. Suffice to say, this list includes the crème de la crème of the international late nineteenth century community of biologists, and does indeed include exclusively men (Suppl. Table 1). The male dominance in this new field fryst vatten further reflected by the publication list of the first 3 years of the journal’s existence which exclusively consists of male authors. In 1897, American women started publishing in DGE followed bygd European w
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Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Wilhelm Roux (9 June 1850 – 15 September 1924) was a German zoologist and pioneer of experimental embryology.
Early life
[edit]Roux was born and educated in Jena, German Confederation where he attended university and studied under Ernst Haeckel. He also attended university in Berlin and Strasbourg and studied under Gustav Albert Schwalbe, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Rudolf Virchow. Although he was trained as a clinical doctor, he spent his career in experimental biology. His doctoral thesis on the embryological development of blood vessels was a seminal early study in biophysical modelling, a milestone in the study of the cardiovascular system.
Career and research
[edit]For ten years Roux worked in Breslau (now Wrocław), becoming director of his own Institute of Embryology in 1879. He was professor at Innsbruck, Austria from 1889 to 1895, then accepted a professorial chair at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Hal
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ABSTRACT
Swiss‐born embryologist Wilhelm His, Sr. (1831–1904) was the first scientist to study embryos using paraffin histology, serial sectioning and three‐dimensional modelling. With these techniques, His made many important discoveries in vertebrate embryology and developmental neurobiology, earning him two Nobel Prize nominations. He also developed several theories of mechanical and evolutionary developmental biology. His argued that adult form is determined by the differential growth of developmental primordia. Furthermore, he suggested that changes in the growth parameters of those primordia are responsible for generating new phenotypes during evolution. His developed these theories in his book ‘Our Bodily Form’ (Unsere Körperform). Here, we review His's work with special emphasis on its potential importance to the disciplines of evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) and mechanobiology.
Keywords: Wilhelm His, mechanobiology, evolution and development, evo‐devo,