SCHWANN, THEODOR

tāˈōdōr shvän, 1810–82, German physiologist and histologist. He was a student of J. P. Müller and professor at the universities of Louvain (1838–48) and Liège (from 1848). A cofounder (with Matthias Schleiden) of the cell theory, Schwann extended the work of Schleiden and demonstrated that the cell is the basis of animal as well as of plant tissue, and because he recognized the physiological and the morphological significance of the cell in advance of other 19th-century biologists he may be called the father of cytology. He described the nerve sheath known by his name and demonstrated the living nature of yeasts. Of great influence was his Microscopical Researches…in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants (1839, tr. 1847).

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Echoes in the Text: Musical Citation in German Narratives from Theodor Fontane to Martin Walser
Book by Jean H. Leventhal; Peter Lang, 1995
Subjects: German Literature--History And Criticism, Music And Literature, Music In Literature, Music--Germany--History And Criticism
...Salget327. 29. Bohme591; Lutz Rohrich and Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, eds., Deutsche Volkslieder: Texte und Melodien Dusseldorf. Schwann, 1965-67 2: 143, gives the text of the first strophe according to the seventeenth-century broadsheet: "Es ist ein...
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A Reference Companion to the History of Abnormal Psychology - Vol. 2
Book by John G. Howells, M. Livia Osborn; Greenwood Press, 1984
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological--Early Works To 1900--Miscellanea, Psychology, Pathological--Miscellanea
...Zilboorg G. 1941. A history of medical psychology . SCHWANN, THEODOR 1810-1882 . A German neurologist. In collaboration...plants. Bibliography: Causey G. 1960. The cell of Schwann . SCHWARTZER, FERENCZ 1818-1889 . A Hungarian psychiatrist...
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Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine
Book by Gordon M. Shepherd; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Neuroanatomy--History, Neurons--History
...basis of neurology, 213 -14 Schizaxons, 220 Schleiden, Matthias, 21 Schultze, Max, 40 Schwann, Theodor, 21 -23, 33 cell theory 1839 , 4 , 32 Schwann cells, term introduced, 21 Second order, Waldeyers view 1891 , 192 Secondary prolongations...
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The Development of the Sciences
Book by Ernest William Brown, Henry Andrews Bumstead, John Johnston, Frank Schlesinger, Herbert Ernest Gregory, Lorande Loss Woodruff, L. L. Woodruff; Yale University Press, 1923
Subjects: Science--History
...Berlin. Professor of Botany at Jena. Founder with Schwann of the cell theory. Ueber Phytogenesis, 1838, English...Rhizopoden und der Pflanzenzellen , 1863. Cf. Locy. SCHWANN, THEODOR 1810-1882 . German zoologist. Pupil of Muller at...
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Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
Book by Stanley Finger; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Brain--Research--History, Neurosciences--History
...Sappho, 24 Schifer, Edward, 261 Schleiden, Matthias, 201 Schultze, Max, 202 Schuster, E., 226 Schwann cells, 201 Schwann, Theodor, 201 Scratch reflex, 228 Scribonius Largus, 49 , 103 Sechenov, Ivan M., 221 , 228 Secret Book of...
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Fiction et Transgression Epistemologique: Le Mythe De L'origine Dans 'La Tentation De Saint Antione' De Flaubert
Journal article by Gisele Seginger; The Romanic Review, Vol. 88, 1997
Subjects: Flaubert, Gustave--Criticism, interpretation, etc., La Tentation de saint Antione (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Myth in literature--Analysis, Science in literature--Analysis
...biologique de Lamarck qui date du debut du seicle. Dans les annees 1840 les naturalistes allemands Mathias Schleiden et Theodor Schwann decouvrent que la cellule est lunite elementaire de la vie(33). Meme si elle est integree dans une totalite elle...
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The Birth of the Cell
Journal article by Joe Cain; Medical History, Vol. 44, 2000
...community around-plus a populous intellectual parentage for-well-known cell theorists such as Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann, and Rudolf Virchow. They certainly were not alone. This book provides superb coverage of relevant researchers...


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Of Mountains and Modernism: Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Magazine article by Chris Walton; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Winter 2007
Subjects: Classical music, Heart failure, Musicians & conductors
...premiere of the work under Walter Herbert even brought praise from Theodor Adorno.13 Lebendig begraben was the work that so impressed...the CD recording of it under Gerd Albrecht have proven (Koch Schwann 314 025 K3), it is not only eminently stageworthy, but at...


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encyclopedia articles on: Schwann Theodor  - 4 results

 
 
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Schwann, Theodor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCHWANN, THEODOR ta odor shvan, 1810 82, German physiologist and histologist. He was...1848). A cofounder (with Matthias Schleiden) of the cell theory, Schwann extended the work of Schleiden and demonstrated that the cell is the...
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Cell , in Biology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...were Antony van Leeuwenhoek , Robert Hooke , and Marcello Malpighi . In the 19th cent. Matthias J. Schleiden and Theodor Schwann developed what is now known as the cell theory. The theory was widely promoted after the pronouncement by Rudolf...
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Schleiden, Matthias Jakob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1804 81, German botanist. He was professor at the universities of Jena (1839 63) and Dorpat (1863 64). With Theodor Schwann, he is credited with establishing the foundations of the cell theory. Schleidens paper Beitrage zur Phytogenesis...
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Science
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the field of embryology, the study of the earliest stages of different forms of life, and Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann identified the cell as the basic unit of living matter. In medicine the treatment of disease was furthered by the...


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