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Hans Winkler
German botanist (1877-1945) · Scientists · Died at 68
Hans Karl Albert Winkler was a German botanist. From 1912 on, he was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. Winkler coined the term 'heteroploidy' in 1916.
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He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome. He wrote:Ich schlage vor, für den haploiden Chromosomensatz, der im Verein mit dem zugehörigen Protoplasma die materielle Grundlage der systematischen Einheit darstellt den Ausdruck: das Genom zu verwenden ...
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