Hermann Fol
1845–92
Swiss zoologist and cytologist. Studied natural sciences at Geneva, then medicine and zoology at Jena, Heidelberg, Zurich, and Berlin. MD 1869. Took part in Ernst Haeckel’s research expedition to Africa and the Canary Islands, 1866–7. Professor of embryology, Geneva, 1878; professor of general morphology, 1885–6. Founder with Jules Barrois of a laboratory for marine biology, Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1882. Founder and editor of Recueil zoologique suisse, 1883. In 1877, the first person to observe fertilisation of an egg; considered to be the father of modern cytology.
Source
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
Bibliography
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Edited by Marco Jorio. 14 vols. Basel: Schwabe. 2002–14.
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