Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss · Science & Medicine
Developmental biologist who advanced the understanding of nerve growth and cellular organization.
1898, Vienna, Austria — 1989, White Plains, New York, United States
Austria · United States
Paul Weiss is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Developmental biologist who advanced the understanding of nerve growth and cellular organization.
Paul Alfred Weiss was an Austrian-born American developmental biologist whose work on nerve growth, regeneration and the self-organization of cells and tissues shaped modern developmental biology. He showed that mixed cells can reorganize into replicas of their donor organs and was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1979. Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, he emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.
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Developmental biologist who advanced the understanding of nerve growth and cellular organization.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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