• Thumbnail for Oscar Hertwig
    Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental...
    9 KB (992 words) - 16:39, 31 July 2024
  • football player Michael Hertwig (born 1960), German football player and manager Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922), German zoologist Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), German...
    556 bytes (98 words) - 02:21, 15 August 2020
  • Thumbnail for Richard Hertwig
    during fertilization. Richard Hertwig was the younger brother of Oscar Hertwig, who also analyzed zygote formation. The Hertwig brothers were the most eminent...
    7 KB (855 words) - 00:26, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human fertilization
    was first observed in 1827 by Karl Ernst von Baer. Only in 1876 did Oscar Hertwig prove that fertilization is due to fusion of an egg and sperm cell....
    25 KB (2,753 words) - 14:08, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ornithoprion
    vaguely resemble the features of a bird, while the species name honors Oscar Hertwig. It is known from specimens preserving the skull and anterior portion...
    40 KB (4,433 words) - 01:38, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leonor Michaelis
    chemistry, and Oscar Hertwig for histology and embryology. During his time at Berlin University, Michaelis worked in the lab of Oscar Hertwig, even receiving...
    14 KB (1,506 words) - 02:27, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedberg, Hesse
    (1789–1871), founder of A.M. Hirschsprung & Sønner Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922), zoologist Richard Hertwig (1850-1937), zoologist Albert Windisch (1878–1967)...
    10 KB (1,119 words) - 09:13, 20 August 2024
  • Hertwig's rule, or the long axis rule states that a cell divides along its long axis. Introduced by the German zoologist Oscar Hertwig in 1884, the rule...
    6 KB (703 words) - 10:02, 25 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Point mutation
    meiosis was discovered by Oscar Hertwig in 1876. Mitosis was discovered several years later in 1882 by Walther Flemming. Hertwig studied sea urchins, and...
    35 KB (4,371 words) - 03:38, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pronucleus
    through the membrane in order to form the male pronucleus. In 1876, Oscar Hertwig did a study on sea urchin eggs because the eggs of sea urchins are transparent...
    10 KB (1,340 words) - 23:42, 12 August 2023
  • October 22 – Lyman Abbott, American theologian (b. 1835) October 25 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1849) October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author...
    82 KB (8,129 words) - 15:31, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landsmannschaft (Studentenverbindung)
    Paul Flechsig Levin Goldschmidt Ernst Haeckel Otto Hahn Herbert Haupt Oscar Hertwig Gottlob Honold Theodor Koch-Grunberg Friedrich August Körnicke Georg...
    4 KB (489 words) - 08:49, 20 August 2024
  • principle in organisms. Other vitalists included Johannes Reinke and Oscar Hertwig. Reinke used the word neovitalism to describe his work, claiming that...
    39 KB (4,764 words) - 17:12, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cell nucleus
    The function of the nucleus remained unclear. Between 1877 and 1878, Oscar Hertwig published several studies on the fertilization of sea urchin eggs, showing...
    87 KB (9,963 words) - 07:20, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1849
    April 20 – Nikolai Nebogatov, Russian admiral (d. 1922) April 21 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (d. 1922) April 24 Emma Whitcomb Babcock, American...
    35 KB (4,153 words) - 01:48, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meiosis
    for the first time in sea urchin eggs in 1876 by the German biologist Oscar Hertwig. It was described again in 1883, at the level of chromosomes, by the...
    64 KB (7,478 words) - 23:27, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mendelian inheritance
    observation of meiosis by two scientists independently, the German botanist Oscar Hertwig in 1876, and the Belgian zoologist Edouard Van Beneden in 1883. Most...
    38 KB (4,037 words) - 09:25, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fertilisation
    Ernst von Baer observed a therian mammalian egg for the first time. Oscar Hertwig (1876), in Germany, described the fusion of nuclei of spermatozoa and...
    45 KB (5,218 words) - 23:47, 26 August 2024
  • Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Oscar Hertwig publishes his findings in reproductive and developmental biology. In...
    40 KB (4,562 words) - 21:14, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for August Weismann
    discovered and described for the first time in sea urchin eggs in 1876, by Oscar Hertwig. It was described again in 1883, at the level of chromosomes, by Van...
    21 KB (2,554 words) - 05:26, 3 October 2024
  • (ovulation) of luteinising hormone (LH). Meiosis was initially discovered by Oscar Hertwig in 1876 as he examined the fusion of the gametes in sea urchin eggs...
    12 KB (1,536 words) - 20:40, 3 December 2023
  • (biology) – operon – organ – organelle – organism – origin of life – Oscar Hertwig – osmosis – osmoregulation – Oswald Avery – outbreak – outline of biochemical...
    19 KB (1,370 words) - 15:31, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karl Ernst von Baer
    Baer became the first person to observe human ova. Only in 1876 did Oscar Hertwig prove that fertilization is due to fusion of an egg and sperm cell....
    29 KB (2,897 words) - 14:14, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hans Driesch
    Freiburg. In 1887 he attended the University of Jena under Ernst Haeckel, Oscar Hertwig and Christian Ernst Stahl. In 1888 he studied physics and chemistry...
    13 KB (1,534 words) - 22:41, 13 October 2024
  • through approaches that could be considered artificial gynogenesis. Oscar Hertwig first achieved artificial parthenogenesis in frogs in 1911, using eggs...
    12 KB (1,468 words) - 09:56, 16 July 2024
  • described for the first time in sea urchin eggs by the German biologist Oscar Hertwig. Josiah Willard Gibbs publishes On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous...
    9 KB (972 words) - 21:52, 27 July 2024
  • William Stewart Halsted (born 1852), American surgeon. October 25 – Oscar Hertwig (born 1849), German zoologist. Nowell, Kristin; Jackson, Peter (1996)...
    12 KB (1,179 words) - 17:03, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hans Spemann
    killing one as Roux had done. Others, including Thomas Hunt Morgan and Oscar Hertwig, attempted to separate the two cells, for the matter was of great importance...
    13 KB (1,502 words) - 23:11, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of German inventions and discoveries
    by Wilhelm Hofmeister 1876: Discovery and description of meiosis by Oscar Hertwig 1877: Description of dyslexia by Adolf Kussmaul 1880s: Bacteriology...
    230 KB (19,850 words) - 02:48, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Fol
    of the microscopic studies of fertilisation and cellular division. Oscar Hertwig also observed this in the same year. In 1878, Fol obtained a post of...
    10 KB (1,357 words) - 15:17, 25 March 2024