Nathaniel Pringsheim
Nathaniel Pringsheim · Science & Medicine
Botanist and a founder of the study of algae; demonstrated sexual reproduction in algae.
1823, Wziesko, Silesia, Prussia (now Poland) — 1894, Berlin, Germany
Germany
Nathaniel Pringsheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Botanist and a founder of the study of algae; demonstrated sexual reproduction in algae.
Nathaniel Pringsheim was a botanist and one of the founders of the study of algae, who in the 1850s demonstrated sexual reproduction in algae by observing fertilization in Vaucheria. He founded the journal 'Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik' and co-founded the German Botanical Society. He came from a wealthy Jewish family in Silesia.
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Botanist and a founder of the study of algae; demonstrated sexual reproduction in algae.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
