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    Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the...
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    named for Wilhelm Hofmeister, who was BMW's design chief from 1955 to 1970, though it appeared on other-brand cars made before Hofmeister's tenure at...
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  • Wilhelm Hofmeister (1912–1978) was the BMW design chief from 1955 to 1970. Trained as an engineer at the Hamburg Wagenbauschule, he was more a skillful...
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    CS, replaced the 2000 C and 2000 CS in 1968. The lead designer was Wilhelm Hofmeister. The wheelbase and length were increased to allow the engine bay to...
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    Fiedler, the project had Eberhard Wolff in charge of chassis design, Wilhelm Hofmeister in charge of styling and body engineering, and Alex von Falkenhausen...
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  • snowboarder Sebastian Hofmeister (1476–1533), Swiss Christian monk and religious reformer Schlomo Hofmeister, Austrian rabbi Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), German...
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    though not merely adding two cylinders. The design team was led by Wilhelm Hofmeister, with some detail work executed by Italy's Bertone and Michelotti...
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    its four-door New Class executive sedan. Corporate design director Wilhelm Hofmeister assigned the project to staffers Georg Bertram and Manfred Rennen...
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    1970, Bracq was appointed design director of BMW, where he succeeded Wilhelm Hofmeister ao. E9 series. Bracq was responsible for the initial designs of the...
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  • Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (abbreviated to Hofmeister) is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807. Early...
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    Mittelmacht, or middle power." Susanna Vogt, "Germany and the G20", in Wilhelm Hofmeister, Susanna Vogt, G20: Perceptions and Perspectives for Global Governance...
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    Wilhelm Freiherr von Roggendorf (1481 – 25 August 1541) was an Austrian military commander and Hofmeister. He was a son of Kaspar von Roggendorf [de]...
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  • Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (d. 1896) 1824 – Wilhelm Hofmeister, German botanist (d. 1877) 1835 – Charles N. Sims, American Methodist...
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    development in organisms was carried out by many botanists and zoologists. Wilhelm Hofmeister demonstrated that alternation of generations is a feature that unites...
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    Fibonacci sequence in 1837. Insight into the mechanism had to wait until Wilhelm Hofmeister proposed a model in 1868. A primordium, the nascent leaf, forms at...
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  • author. Broad Ripple Lodge No. 643 F&A.M., Indianapolis, Indiana. Wilhelm Hofmeister, botanist who discovered the alternation of generations of plants...
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    liverworts and algae. In his Vergleichende Untersuchungen of 1851, Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877) starting with the ferns and bryophytes demonstrated that...
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    Gustav Carus (1789–1869), doctor, painter and natural philosopher Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), biologist and botanist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880)...
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    breakdown of carbon dioxide, and was sent abroad, where he studied under Wilhelm Hofmeister, Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff, Marcellin Berthelot, Hermann von...
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    physics at the Heidelberg University and work in the laboratory of Wilhelm Hofmeister. In the second semester of that school year he joined the lab of the...
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism...
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  • reproductive health in the Philippines". In Zheng Yongnian; Lye Liang Fook; Wilhelm Hofmeister (eds.). Parliaments in Asia: Institution Building and Political Development...
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    alternation of haploid gametophytes and diploid sporophytes. In 1851, Wilhelm Hofmeister demonstrated the morphological alternation of generations in plants...
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    reproductive health in the Philippines". In Zheng Yongnian; Lye Liang Fook; Wilhelm Hofmeister (eds.). Parliaments in Asia: Institution Building and Political Development...
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  • geographer. March 12 – Gustav Kirchhoff (died 1887), physicist. May 18 – Wilhelm Hofmeister (died 1877), botanist. June 26 – William Thomson (died 1907), Lord...
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    2016-02-05. Retrieved 2014-03-04. Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "Franck, Sebastian". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon...
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    generations, found in all plants and most algae, by the German botanist Wilhelm Hofmeister. This discovery is one of the most important made in all of plant...
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  • Taxonomy for Plants Walpersia Harv. Walpers, Wilhelm Gerhard (1845). Repertorium botanices systematicae (Vol. III ed.). sumtibus Friderici Hofmeister. v t e...
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    Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891) was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man...
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    1823–1894 Wilhelm Hofmeister 1824–1877 Julius von Sachs 1832–1897 Eugenius Warming 1841–1924 William Gilson Farlow 1844–1919 Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper...
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