August Weismann
German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914) · Scientists · Died at 80
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.
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1914Died5 November 19141910Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1908Darwin MedalAwardDarwin-Wallace MedalAward1894Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and ArtAward1876Cothenius MedalAward1834Born17 January 1834
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Lived 1834 to 1914 · aged 80
