Frits Warmolt Went (May 18, 1903 – May 1, 1990) was a Dutch biologist whose 1928 experiment demonstrated the existence of auxin in plants. Went's father...
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the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically...
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Auxin (section Frits Went)
and are essential for plant body development. The Dutch biologist Frits Warmolt Went first described auxins and their role in plant growth in the 1920s...
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abbreviation "Went" Louise Went (1865–1951) Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990), Dutch biologist and child of Frits Went George Went Hensley (1881–1955), American...
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(1863–1935), Dutch botanist, father of Frits Warmolt Went Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990), Dutch biologist and botanist Frits Zernike (1888–1966), Dutch physicist...
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in use today. The first phytotron was built under the direction of Frits Warmolt Went at the California Institute of Technology in 1949. It was funded by...
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Nikolai Cholodny of the University of Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1927 and by Frits Warmolt Went of the California Institute of Technology in 1928, both based on work...
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the first class of growth regulators discovered. A Dutch Biologist Frits Warmolt Went first described auxins. They affect cell elongation by altering cell...
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discovery of the first plant hormone. In the 1920s Dutch scientist Frits Warmolt Went and Russian scientist Nikolai Cholodny (working independently of each...
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Moore, director, 1912 to 1953 Edgar Anderson, director, 1954 to 1957 Frits Warmolt Went, director, 1958 to 1963 David Gates, director, 1965 to 1971 Peter...
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now known to be indoleacetic acid (IAA). The Cholodny–Went model is named after Frits Warmolt Went of the California Institute of Technology and the Ukrainian...
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the 1930s. He is known for the Cholodny–Went model, which he developed independently with Frits Warmolt Went of the California Institute of Technology...
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mechanisms were first described by the Cholodny-Went model, proposed in the 1920s by N. Cholodny and Frits Warmolt Went. Polar auxin transport is required for...
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Germany 1933, 1934 Nominated by Otto Fr.Steurer only (id=10271) Frits Warmolt Went May 18, 1903 Utrecht, Netherlands May 1, 1990 Little Valley, United...
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Prize laureate; Wolf Prize winner Jerome Vinograd, former faculty Frits Warmolt Went, former faculty William Barry Wood, former faculty; Distinguished...
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1969) May 14 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997) May 18 – Frits Warmolt Went, Dutch botanist (d. 1990) May 19 – Shimoe Akiyama, Japanese supercentenarian...
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tenured as an associate professor. His supporters included Bonner and Frits Warmolt Went, both of whom were senior plant biology researchers at Caltech. He...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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later editions of his book, Plant Breeding, a very successful book that went through several editions. De Vries wrote (from the Fourth Edition, 1906,...
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rugby player and academic. Jindřich Maudr, 84, Czechoslovak wrestler. Frits Warmolt Went, 86, Dutch-American biologist. Germain Bazin, 88, French art historian...
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the "Dutch Mafia" at Caltech. (Another member of the "mafia" was Frits Warmolt Went.) Haagen-Smit studied the flavor of pineapples. He published a paper...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where his work with E. B. Babcock...
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Schultz (1804–1876) F.W.Wakef. – F.W. Wakefield (fl. 1922) F.W.Went – Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990) F.W.Xing – Fu Wu Xing (born 1956) F.Y.Liu – Fang Yuan...
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member of the California Academy of Sciences while still a youth, Raven went on to graduate with a BSc in biology from the University of California, Berkeley...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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(1955) Harriet Creighton (1956) George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957) Frits Warmolt Went (1958) William Campbell Steere (1959) Kenneth V. Thimann (1960) Vernon...
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