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Julius von Sachs (German:; 2 October 1832 – 29 May 1897) was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He is considered the founder of experimental plant physiology and co-founder of modern water culture.
May 25, 2024 · Julius von Sachs was a German botanist whose experimental study of nutrition, tropism, and transpiration of water greatly advanced the knowledge of plant physiology, and the cause of experimental biology in general, during the second half of the 19th century.
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Julius Sachs (July 6, 1849 – February 2, 1934) was an American educator, founder of the Sachs Collegiate Institute who belongs to the Goldman–Sachs family of bankers. Sachs was born on July 6, 1849, in Baltimore.
Jun 11, 2018 · Sachs, Julius von (1832–97) German botanist. A founder of plant physiology, his Textbook of Botany (1868) was an influential synthesis of botanical data. Sachs demonstrated the importance of transpiration and the role of chlorophyll in plants.
The goal of this Special Invited Paper is to review the many impor-tant contributions to plant biology made by Julius von Sachs (1832– 1897), who quite rightly can be called “the father of plant physiology” (Fig. 1).
Here we highlight key insights, with particular emphasis on Sachs' detailed discussion of sexual reproduction at the cellular level and his endorsement of Darwinian evolution. Keywords: Charles Darwin; Julius Sachs; botanical history; evolution; physiological botany; plant physiology.
Jun 7, 2010 · Julius von Sachs helped establish plant physiology through his experiments in latter nineteenth-century Germany. Sachs infused the inchoate discipline of plant physiology with experimental techniques and a mechanistic stance, both of which cemented his place as one of the discipline’s founders.
