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Theodor Boveri

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German geneticist (1862-1915)

AcademicsLived 1862 to 1915 · aged 53
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Theodor Heinrich Boveri was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer, and for describing chromatin diminution in nematodes. His brother was industrialist Walter Boveri.

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1913Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
1912Erzherzog Rainer-Medaille

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Theodor Heinrich Boveri was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer, and for describing chromatin diminution in nematodes. His brother was industrialist Walter Boveri. Boveri was married to the American biologist Marcella O'Grady (1863-1950). Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900-1975) became one of the best-known journalists in post-World War II Germany.

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Lived 1862 to 1915 · aged 53
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