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Wilhelm Hofmeister

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German botanist (1824-1877)

ScientistsLived 1824 to 1877 · aged 52
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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. " Largely self-taught he was the first to study and establish alternation of generations and the details of sexual reproduction in the bryophytes.

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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." Largely self-taught he was the first to study and establish alternation of generations and the details of sexual reproduction in the bryophytes.

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Lived 1824 to 1877 · aged 52
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